Dishonest Quotes

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

We do many things at the federal level that would be considered dishonest and illegal if done in the private sector.

It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

I've learnt that through life you just get on with it. You're going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

It is intellectually dishonest to look backwards with all the facts and judge the decisions that were made with almost none of the facts, or the facts that existed hidden in the normal cloud of endless speculation of what might happen.

If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.

A composite is a euphemism for a lie. It's disorderly. It's dishonest and it's not journalism.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge.