Dishonesty Quotes - Page 7

• Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

  George Bancroft

  Honesty, Hype, Deception

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• It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

  John Locke

  Art, Lying, Men

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.373

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• A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Lying, Helping, Trouble

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• Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

  Samuel Butler

  Lying, Analogies, Mislead

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4153, Delphi Classics

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• The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.

  A. B. Simpson

  Men, Hands, Fellow Man

  A. B. Simpson (2009). “Wholly Sanctified: Living a Life Empowered by the Holy Spirit”, p.46, Moody Publishers

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• The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful to truth must make himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable renascent errors

  Charles Peguy

  Honesty, Men, Errors

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• The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of which it is woven. I wish to say particularly to the young men who are here that you cannot indulge in any unbecoming behavior without injury to the beauty of the fabric of your lives. Immoral acts of any kind will introduce an ugly thread. Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. Foul and profane language will rob the pattern of its beauty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Men, Indulge In

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• I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.

  Salman Rushdie

  Art, Charlie Hebdo, Stupidity

  "Charlie Hebdo magazine attack: vigils held as French hunt suspects – as it happened". www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2015.

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• So when you hear about Hillary's [Clinton] dishonesty, or the emails, or taking millions from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern dictatorships - remember, this is not about politics.

  Newt Gingrich

  Email, Remember, Clinton

  "Fact check: Republicans rush to blame Hillary Clinton". Newt Gingrich's remarks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, www.bostonglobe.com. July 21, 2016.

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• It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Honesty, Men, Persons

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

  Samuel Richardson

  Depressing, Lying, Pride

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• Honesty is something you can't wear out.

  Waylon Jennings

  Motivational, Honesty

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• It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

  Tom Stoppard

  Witty, Truth, Honesty

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.49, University of Michigan Press

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• An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Leadership, Honesty, Exercise

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.185

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• Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)

  Howard Gardner

  Loyalty, Integrity, Ethical Principles

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• What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Forgiving, Vision, Mouths

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• The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth... In a world struggling in violence and dishonesty, the further development of non-violence - not only as a philosophy but as a way of life, as a force on the streets, in the market squares, outside the missile bases, inside the chemical plants and inside the war industry - becomes one of the most urgent priorities.

  Petra Kelly

  Determination, Philosophy, War

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• Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Truth, Honesty, Character

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

  H. L. Mencken

  Atheist, Honesty, Mistake

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• There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in the one domain and sometimes in the other.

  O. Henry

  Truth, Honesty, Lines

  O. Henry (2016). “The Complete Works Of O. Henry”, p.2395, ShandonPress

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• It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Honesty, Memories, Lying

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  Richard J. Needham

  Honesty, People, Satisfaction

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• If you tell the truth, you don't need a long memory.

  Jesse Ventura

  Inspirational, Memories, Truth

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• Integrity makes my job easier. It's deception and dishonesty that requires so much diligent effort.

  Bobby Bowden

  Jobs, Honesty, Integrity

  Bobby Bowden, Steve Bowden (2001). “The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom”, p.41, Taylor Trade Publications

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• God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who observed it - for observing it. The more you tried to live up to it, the more you suffered; the more you cheated it, the bigger reward you got. Your honesty was like a tool left at the mercy of the next man's dishonesty. The honest ones paid, the dishonest collected. The honest lost, the dishonest won. How long could men stay good under this sort of a law of goodness?

  Ayn Rand

  Honesty, Men, Law

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1765, Penguin

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