Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old dishonesty quotes, dishonesty sayings, and dishonesty proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.Gordon B. Hinckley
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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.George Bancroft
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People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.Frans De Waal
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.Hannah Arendt
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Lying can never save us from another lie.Vaclav Havel
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.Adrienne Rich
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part of dupes.Thomas Carlyle
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Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.Luc De Clapiers
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.Alfred Nobel
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Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.Albert Camus
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The thing about lying is, it is quite exhausting - you have to remember a lot.Rupert Everett
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Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.Susan Sontag
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Lying about anything is the cruelest thing in the world you could ever do. Be who you are. Don't try to be someone you're not. It never works.Summer Glau
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.Edmund Burke
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When being dishonest, people can still tell the truth. Be mindful of the treacherous that do not lie.Eric Parslow
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.Jean Cocteau
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It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.Marcel Proust
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Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.Aleister Crowley
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Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.Michel de Montaigne
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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.Phaedrus
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.Steven Soderbergh
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.John Tillotson
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Lying is not only a defense mechanism; it's also a coping mechanism and a survival technique.Monica Raymund
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There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.Justin Welby
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Lying is a sin destructive to society; for there is no trade where there is no trust, and there is no trust where there is no truth.Wellins Calcott
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The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.Elijah Wood
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The deception of others is almost always rooted in the deception of ourselves.Bill W
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Being dishonest to himself is the biggest crime any human can makeLoknath
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.Clare Boothe Luce
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Saying what you believe others want to hear is, of course, a form of lying.Karl Ove Knausgard
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Lying does exist in crazy forms.Chris Pine
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There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.Mark Twain
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''They say'' is often a great liar.Proverb
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Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.Oscar Wilde
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Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.Evans
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.Hosea Ballou
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It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.Thomas Paine
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Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.Pierre Corneille
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There's a degree of deception in silence.Don Lemon
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All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.Robert Southey
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Deception may give us what we want for the present, but it will always take it away in the end.Rachel Hawthorne
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For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.Charles Simmons
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To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.Lao-Tzu
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.Socrates
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.Abu Bakr
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A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.Mikhail Bakunin
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Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.Jean Giraudoux
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Falsehood always endeavors to copy the mien and attitude of truth.Samuel Johnson
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It is a true saying that One falsehood leads easily to another.Cicero
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Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.Bovee.
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He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.Lavater
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I could never draw the line between meanness and dishonesty. What is mean, so far I can see, slides by indistinguishable gradations into what is dishonest.C. Macdonald
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Every man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well. he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.Emerson
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Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring long-lasting remorse.Chilo
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If you want to keep a man honest, never call him a liar.Clark Gable
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All women are dishonest. If they weren't, the world would be divided into two classes of people: old maids and bachelors.Helen Broderick
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I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week if there is anything to be got by it.Charles Dickens
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Dishonesty, cowardice, and duplicity are never impulsive.George Knight
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Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.Peter Malkin
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Men are so simple and yield so readily to the wants of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer himself to be tricked.Niccolo Machiavelli
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.Japanese Proverb
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May the man be damned and never grow fat, who wears two faces under one hat.Spanish Proverb
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Bread gained by deceit is sweet but afterward, the mouth will be full of gravel.Proverbs 20:17
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The thoughts of the righteous are right; the counsels of the wicked are deceit.Proverbs 12:5
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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.Abraham Lincoln
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indeed, it is not in human nature to deceive others for any long time, without in a measure deceiving ourselves, too.John Henry Newman
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A poor man is better than a liar.Proverbs 19:22
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No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.Greville
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Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.A. Hill
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self— All sin is easy after that.Bailey
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O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.Walter Scott
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Were we to take as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to disguise what we are, we might appear like ourselves without being at the trouble of any disguise at all.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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One deceit needs many others, and so the whole house is built in the air and must soon come to the ground.Baltasar Gracian
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Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.Plato
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When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; / Yet, fooled with hope, men favor the deceit; / Trust on and think tomorrow will repay, / Tomorrow's falser than the former day.John Dryden
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.Shenstone
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Falsehood, like the dry rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.Whately
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The telling of falsehood is like the cut of a saber; for though the wound may heal, the scar of it will remain.Saadi
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths but usually quarrel among themselves.Daniel Webster