“Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.”
Dishonesty And Lying Quotes
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Dishonesty And Lying Quotes
“Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.”
“Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.”
“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”
Source: Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.”
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts
“A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
“The truth is more important than the facts.”
Source: Letters to Architects
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8
“The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.”
“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.”
“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”
Source: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: by Mark Twain (Illustrated and Unabridged)
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
Source: Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays
“People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.”
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.”
Source: The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo
“Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.”