41 Quotes About Being Dishonest

There is much truth behind the act of dishonesty. These quotes about being dishonest will help you to determine what is real and what is not.

“A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.”

“A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.”

“A person who says they will never lie to you is probably lying already.”

“A true relationship is when you can tell each other anything and everything. No secrets and no lies.”

“All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.”

“And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.”

“Being nice merely to be liked in return nullifies the point.”

“Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”

“Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie: A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby.”

“Don’t lie to me unless you’re absolutely sure that I will never find the truth.”

“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”

“Everytime you lie, it brings me a little closer to goodbye.”

“Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned – yet whose enormous fortune…has already brought him acquittal!”

“I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other’s eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.”

“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.”

“It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.”

“Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.”

“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”

“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”

“Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.”

“Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.”

“Never lie to a woman’s question. Sometimes she already knows the answer. That’s why she is asking.”

“Never lie to someone who trust you. Never trust someone who lies to you.”

“No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.”

“One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest.”

“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”

“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”

“The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.”

“The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.”

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”

“The trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after they’ve been used a couple of times.”

“The worst part about being lied to is knowing that to that person, you weren’t worth the truth.”

“There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. …Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest.”

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as ‘moral indignation,’ which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.”

“Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

“What I don’t understand is how a person can tell you so many lies and never feel bad about it.”

“Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.”

“Who lies for you will lie against you.”

“You can’t constantly lie and expect people to trust you.”

There are different types of dishonesty that can escalate situations to turn into uncontrollable circumstances.