Quotes about Dishonesty

You can't pray a lie.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.

But the "best" lies are those that look the most like the Truth. The "newest" lies are the oldest ones.

We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." Rochefoucauld's maxim

When a moral person is confronted with contempt, immorality, disloyalty, or dishonesty, he is so repulsed by the offense that he turns away and in despair closes his heart to the offender. But the miracle of the redemptive reality of God is that the worst and the vilest offender can never exhaust the depths of His love.

Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

What if my father touches me? Then I would be revealed to him as a deceiver, and I would bring upon myself a curse rather than a blessing.”

Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”

He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.