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Dishonesty Quotes

Honesty guides good people; dishonesty destroys treacherous people

Proverbs 11:3

Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

Horace Mann

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Plato

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Charles Simmons

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

John Steinbeck

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

Abu Bakr

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

George Carlin

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

Leo Burnett

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

Norodom Sihanouk

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Benjamin Franklin

Every act of dishonesty has at least two victims: the one we think of as the victim, and the perpetrator as well. Each little dishonesty makes another little rotten spot somewhere in the perpetrator's psyche.

Lesley Conger

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

Christian Bovee

There is no well-defined boundary 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 one domain and sometimes in the other.

O. Henry

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Charles Dickens