Dishonesty Quotes and Sayings

“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.” – Anatole France

“Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.” – Plato

“That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.” – Leo Burnett

“There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.” – Todd Rundgren

“It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.” – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” – Plato

“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne

“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

“Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.” – Samuel Johnson

“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.” – Norodom Sihanouk