152 Quotes About Dishonesty

Unfortunately in today’s world a liar seems to be more reliable than a truthful honest man.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

You've got to see me, Martin. I'm to blame. I've never been quite and entirely myself with you. The situation didn't let me be. The untruthfulness infected everything. I must break out a little? Do you see at all?

[There are] lies of two varieties. There is the truly bad, “I know that what I am saying is untrue, but it suits my agenda to say it anyway” kind. There is the less bad, “I came upon information I liked or found persuasive, and repeated it before verifying it was true” kind. The latter is not about willful dishonesty, just carelessness. But since both varieties promulgate misinformation, both kinds are harmful.

If you are OK being dishonest, circumstances will squeeze you so much that you will have no other option but to be dishonest. If you are not OK being dishonest, circumstances will allow you to stay honest.

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.