“I don't know about you, but I for one, I for one, hit my knees every night and thank the man upstairs that there is a little bit of dishonesty left in this otherwise sunny world. You just think about that. That's all I have to say.”— Glenn Gordon Caron, David Addison Jr., Bruce Willis, imdb.com
“You see, what I hate more than anything is a liar. A charlatan. Someone who doesn't believe in what they say.”— Joe Henderson, Lucifer Morningstar, Tom Ellis, imdb.com
“A snake was never called by its name at night, because it would hear. It was called a string.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“A good executive does not like mistakes. He will allow his subordinates an honest mistake once in a while, but he will never condone or forgive dishonesty.”— Ray Kroc, amazon.com
“Is this dishonest? I don’t think so. Is wearing makeup dishonest? It’s changing the focus, accentuating the positive, and distracting the eye from the negative.”— James J. Sexton, psychologytoday.com
“There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the im…”— Abraham Lincoln, en.wikiquote.org
“Frequency of use of words like ‘I ’ or ‘me’ have been associated in previous studies with lack of forthrightness.”— Ephrat Livni, qz.com
“Dishonesty to spare someone’s feelings belittles everyone involved, but dishonesty to get free stuff is just smart economics!”— Stephen Falk, Jimmy Shive-Overly, Chris Geere, imdb.com
“By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.”— Orhan Pamuk, amazon.com
“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“People rarely said what they thought, or revealed how they felt. No one was honest.”— Tammara Webber, amazon.com
“The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, goodreads.com
“You want to know how two chemicals interact, do you ask them? No, they're going to lie through their lying little teeth. Throw them in a beaker and apply heat.”— Matt Witten, Peter Blake, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.”— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“You can taste the dishonesty/ It's all over your breath as you pass it off so cavalier.”— Beyoncé, azlyrics.com