Dishonesty Quotes - Page 10

• There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.

  Lance Armstrong

  Bullying, Thinking

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• 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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• Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group
  without being willing to pay; and claims a halo for his dishonesty.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Groups, Halos

  Robert A. Heinlein (2013). “Double Star”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.

  Elizabeth I

  Strong, Two, May

  Elizabeth I (2002). “Elizabeth I: Collected Works”, p.262, University of Chicago Press

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• it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Running, Long, Way

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “Old Wine: A Novel”, p.39, Northwestern University Press

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• I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.

  Ken Livingstone

  Views, Order, Needs

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

  Don Marquis

  Honesty, Good Things, Profitable

  archys life of mehitabel (1933) "archygrams"

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

  Plutarch

  Lying, Men, Vices

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• I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley. I think I'm more intrigued by characters who don't do the right thing and where we are allowed to identify with their shame/dishonesty/envy... whatever.

  Danzy Senna

  Character, Thinking, Envy

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• The level of dishonesty is out of control.

  Donald Trump

  Levels

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

  David Ogilvy

  Political, Kind, Advertising

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