Top 100 Dishonest Quotes

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn’t find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn’t find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

I just want to unify people. A crowd full of people singing one song… that doesn’t derive from anything dishonest… It’s someone’s truth.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

That’s one of the main things I’ve learned: honesty is paramount. The biggest thing I try and instil in my daughter. My deepest regrets have been to do with times that I’ve been dishonest. There’s nothing worse than getting caught out in a lie. It’s excruciatingly embarrassing.

If you challenge multiculturalism you are seen to be a racist. But it’s a political philosophy that needs to be looked at. If you don’t, you’re taking it on trust, which is intellectually dishonest.

I don’t believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that’s dishonest. For example, I’m not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don’t, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

Real leadership is calm. Real leadership is steady in moments of crisis. It is not hysterical. It is not exploitive. It is not dishonest.

In the Sabs we had to remain in this depressing, unreal world. I didn’t like all the devilish boohoo that went with it, to tell you the truth. There was manipulation from outside sources that preferred us to be a certain way. Acting up to that, I felt quite dishonest.

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She’d put it in the shopping cart and we’d walk out. I was raised with that.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

You can’t just skim the surface of any role. You have to find the depths, because any other way would be dishonest.

In the Sabs we had to remain in this depressing, unreal world. I didn’t like all the devilish boohoo that went with it, to tell you the truth. There was manipulation from outside sources that preferred us to be a certain way. Acting up to that, I felt quite dishonest.

I contend that the ethos of perpetual non-judgment is intellectually dishonest if not outright cowardly.

No matter how small the dishonest deed is, at the end of the day, cheating is cheating.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Authors use ‘almost’ to avoid stating an outright fact, as though there were something inauthentic, dishonest, unfinished, undecided or even unwholesome – some might say repulsive, tacky, snub-nosed, too direct – in qualifying anything as definitely a this or a that.

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

In pursuit of their commercial ambitions, Huawei relied on dishonest business practices that contradict the economic principles that have allowed American companies and the United States to thrive.

I think when a campaign is dishonest in the ads they run about another candidate, it diminishes the campaign, it diminishes the candidate, and it diminishes the presidency.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.

Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for ‘religious toleration’ are arrogantly dishonest.

Any candidate who claims his religion has no influence on his decisions is either a dishonest politician or a shallow follower of his faith.

The only differences one can and should allow in socialism are between hard working people and idlers and between honest people and dishonest people.

In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings.

It’s dishonest to say we’re doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.

It is intellectually dishonest to lump venture investors with hedge fund and buy-out investors.

Me, I’m dishonest, and you can always trust a dishonest man to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you have to watch out for.

I’ve learnt that through life you just get on with it. You’re going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

Italians know about human nature – they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.

I really do pride myself on being able to help other people tell their stories and bring out the best in them. But I still, every song I’m writing, I still need to relate to it. I still need to find my true self in it, or else it’ll feel dishonest. I mean, everything has a queer meaning as far as I’m concerned.

Whatever you put in your listing, make sure that it’s a true representation of the property and it’s not dishonest.

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don’t want their products to be seen as dishonest.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

Short of the dishonest, the illegal, and the cruel, there’s only one thing my son could do that would really disappoint me: not liking reading.

Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.

I never did anything dishonest.

Right here at home, we have seen what happens when a politician breaks that public trust, when they are dishonest and corrupt.

It’s dishonest to say we’re doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

The market tends to pay as a wage what an individual laborer is worth. But the case last studied suggests the question how accurately the law operates in practice. May it not be an honest law, but be so vitiated in its working as to give a dishonest result?

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It’s disorderly. It’s dishonest and it’s not journalism.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.