Quotes about Dishonesty
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw
No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.
- TB Joshua
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
- JI Packer
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.
- Martin Luther
A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
What sorrow awaits you who build big houses with money gained dishonestly! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your family's nest beyond the reach of danger. HABAKKUK 2:9
- Beth Moore
I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong—racial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God.
- Billy Graham
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
- George Eliot
Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
- Henry David Thoreau