Top 33 Dishonesty Quotes

On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.

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.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that’s wrong. Don’t get into a relationship if you can’t be honest.

It is hard to conceive of the utter demoralization, of the political blindness and immorality, of the patriotic dishonesty, of the cruelty and degradation of a people who supplemented the incomparable Declaration of Independence with the Fugitive Slave Law.

In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.

Some people in India want to increase corruption and dishonesty in the name of caste.

I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.

There’s a reason most Republicans and a vast majority of voters loathe Donald Trump: his vulgarity, his blistering ignorance, his constant dishonesty, his venality, and his utter lack of the knowledge, judgment, or temperament to be president of the United States.

I don’t want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don’t want to be a part of that.

The media needs to do some soul searching on itself and ask why they continue to spread provably false stories, and stop projecting their own dishonesty onto others.

There’s so much dishonesty with motherhood in general… The truth is it’s just a lot of embarrassing, humiliating moments.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

I’m a guy who is easy to get along with, and I’ll put up with a lot of things. But not dishonesty.

People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don’t like in others.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

Biden’s first failed run for the presidency was ended by his dishonesty over his academic record and his plagiarism, including the biography and speeches of British Labor politician Neil Kinnock.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

When I ascended from the depths of the working class to the middle class, the higher I got, the more dishonesty I found.

I cannot stand dishonesty among people, the tendency to prevaricate.

I think art cannot be planned. The audience is too smart to get the dishonesty or ‘too much planning’ thing. I am not a legend, but I want to be one. I want to be known as an achiever. There is so much more that I can do.

Donald Trump’s mini-me, Boris Johnson, is in the ascendant: the Tory crown is his to lose. But his colleagues know he’s an incompetent, a man who cares only for himself, who was fired twice – by a newspaper editor and a party leader – over allegations of dishonesty.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Rhe language of politics is experienced by most as spin with the assumption of dishonesty.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Sin is more than turning our backs on God – it is turning our backs on life! Immorality is much more than adultery and dishonesty: it is living drab, colorless, dreary, stale, unimaginative lives.

I can’t handle dishonesty; I like integrity in people and for me, that’s very important in a man.