(25 quotes found)
“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
“Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.”
Plato
“The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.”
John Steinbeck
“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
“There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws”
Jerry Falwell
“This budget is like an Enron budget -- smoke the numbers, cook the books, hide the truth and hope no one finds out.”
Senator John Kerry
“Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible”
George Bancroft
“Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.”
Leo Burnett