Dishonesty Quotes - Page 2

• O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

  Walter Scott

  Wisdom, Truth, Lying

  Marmion canto 6, st. 17 (1808)

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

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Honesty, Liars, Devil

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• That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

  Amy Tan

  Betrayal, Lying, Secret

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.105, Penguin

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• It is a man's own dishonesty, his crimes, his wickedness, and boldness, that takes away from him soundness of mind; these are the furies, these the flames and firebrands, of the wicked.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Flames, Mind

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• The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

  Adolf Hitler

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Honesty, Believe, Issues

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• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Lying, Duplicity, Conflict

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.127, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Being Yourself

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 2 (1891)

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• If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research.

  Wilson Mizner

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

  Quoted in Bennett Cerf, Try and Stop Me: A Collection of Anecdotes and Stories, Mostly Humorous (1944). Although this is usually credited to Mizner, the Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 1941, quotes Bob Oliver: "If you steal from one man, it's plagiarism. If you steal from several, it's research."

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• Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Truth, Lying, Deceiving Others

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• Punctuality is the thief of time

  Oscar Wilde

  Time, Work, Lying

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.222, Wordsworth Editions

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• People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Lying, Hype, People

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

  Plato

  Truth, Honesty, Plato

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• By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up their mind.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Honesty, Mean, Intelligent

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• Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Brother, Honesty, Twins

  "Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker, containing over a thousand subjects alphabetically and systematically arranged". Book by Charles Simmons, p. 20. Chapter: "Accuracy", 1852.

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• There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  "Donald Trump, a Populist for the Rich" by Jim Hightower, progressive.org. October 9, 2016.

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• Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Raw Materials, Dupes

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Venice, Shylock

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Men, Thinking

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.237, Courier Corporation

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• Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, Waiting

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 242, 1895.

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• Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Jobs, Business, Responsibility

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• MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.

  Paul Ekman

  Cheating, Work, Lying

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• Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honesty, Lying, Hands

  Benjamin Franklin (1824). “The Works with His Life /Franklin, Benjamin”, p.149

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• Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Liars, Lying

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