Quotes about Dishonesty

Hypocrisy, it is said, is "the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

A Texas bank robber wrote his hold-up note on the back of his resume, on which he lied about his earlier robberies.

Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

If you're lying, you're lying.

I don't know what to say or how to say it." So I said nothing. Not a word. I stuffed it all down and started to build a barrier to hide behind. After the incident, I smiled when I saw her, but I held her at a distance. She knew something was wrong, but when she questioned me about it, I lied. "Everything's fine," I said. But everything wasn't fine. Not at all.

Lies flee in the presence of truth.

The universe does not favour the greedy, the dishonest, the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the virtuous.

lazy thoughts crystallize into habits of uncleanliness and dishonesty, which solidify into circumstances of foulness and beggary: hateful and condemnatory thoughts crystallize into habits of accusation and violence

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

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.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.