Dishonesty Quotes

“It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.”

“People who serve you without love get even behind your back.”

“If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)”

“Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.”

“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”

“The most that can be said of flattery is that it is sometimes a cheap psychological trick with which charlatans and dishonest people lull others into a state of carelessness while they pick their pockets.”

“What is dishonorably got, is dishonorably squandered.”

“By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.”

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

“The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.”

“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.”

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