Dishonesty Quotes - Page 10

• My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty.

  John Cullum

  Honesty, Father, Businessman

  "Q&A – John Cullum (Lee Garner Sr. of Lucky Strike)". Interview with Ashley Shaw, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Love You, Past

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• To this day, we get letters at Alternative Tentacles from young teenagers who hide their Dead Kennedys albums behind their mirror or in the mattress of their bed. Wouldn't it be better if the parents just discussed this with the kids instead of creating this culture of sneaking and dishonesty within the family? The moral of the story being, you don't hide reality from your kids because then they grow up to be smarter, more aware adults.

  Jello Biafra

  Growing Up, Teenager, Kids

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Kind, Unbecoming

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• According to Kim Jong-Il's biography, they say he has been constantly accused of dishonesty, drunkenness and sexual excess. So if he lived here, he could be in Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Excess, Biographies, Kim

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• Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

  Dave Ramsey

  Wealth, Increase, Labor

  Twitter post from Aug 13, 2013

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• There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Laughter, Heart, Men

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Heartbreak, Truth, Lying

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1903). “Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts”

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• 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.

  Frans de Waal

  People, Worry, Perception

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, People

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Hero, Eye, Feet

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire…. ….The world winks at dishonesty. the world does not call it dishonesty

  Walter Kaufmann

  Doe, World, Want

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• The press has become so dishonest that if we don't talk about, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. Tremendous disservice. We have to talk to find out what's going on, because the press honestly is out of control. The level of dishonesty is out of control.

  Donald Trump

  People, Levels, Honestly

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The level of dishonesty is out of control.

  Donald Trump

  Levels

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

  John Steinbeck

  Business, Lying, Important

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.95, Hamilton Books

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• Lying is a most disgraceful vice; it first despises God, and then fears men.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Men, Vices

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• Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

  Sarah Hall

  Soul, Noses, Faults

  Sarah Hall (2010). “The Electric Michelangelo”, p.84, Faber & Faber

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• Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inability, Emotion, Mark

  "Everybody’s Protest Novel". Essay by James A. Baldwin (1949), as quoted in "Uneasy Rider" by Alexandra Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2015.

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• I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.

  Frank Zappa

  Honesty, People, Balance

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.

  Randall Wright

  Sex, Television, Today

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• Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

  Charles Curtis

  Lying, Bias And Prejudice, Hype

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• To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."

  William Shenstone

  Lying, Believe, Men

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• Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

  Judith Martin

  Honesty, Women, Alternatives

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• Lying and cheating in advertising, in the long run, are commercial suicide. Dishonesty in advertising destroys not only confidence in advertising, but also in the medium which carries the dishonest advertisement. . . . No one can be ill in a community without endangering others; no advertiser can be dishonest without casting suspicion upon others.

  Daniel Starch

  Suicide, Running, Cheating

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• 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.

  Dan Ariely

  People, News, Stories

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