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Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty.
It is a very trying task for deceitful people, always to have to cover up their lack of sincerity and to repair the breaking of their word.
The human heart is so steeped in self-deception that it can easily outrun its own lies. It can use even meticulous honesty as a form of dishonesty, a way of saying to God, "Look how honest I am.
I should have reminded myself that people willing to cheat a little bit are generally dishonest throughout.
Deception by an omission of the truth is as bad as a lie.
In the essence of truth lies deceit.
Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.
Honesty is a heart that betrays itself for a dream, a moment, a kiss.
Dishonest people don't believe honest people exist.
Honesty in principle was one thing. In someone's face, it was another.
By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines the choices they can make - and in ways we cannot always predict. Every lie is a direct assault upon the autonomy of those we lie to.
A lack of transparency that fuels the idea that she is either hiding something or simply not someone to be trusted.
Never lie under any circumstances.
There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.
No forgiveness for lies.
The secret he keeps, the lies he tells.
You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life ... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty with utter lies ... !!!
People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.
Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.
- Mr. Penderwick
Don't make misrepresentations to anyone you deal with. If you believe the other person may have misunderstood you, correct any misunderstanding you find exists. Honesty is integral to ethical behavior, and trustworthiness is essential for good, lasting relationships.
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception casts us onto some of the steepest ethical terrain we ever cross.
A lie is any communication with intent to deceive,
Secrets and Malice
Intentions are ambitious liars.
There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.
Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.
A backwards step of self-doubt, a lying promise that you knew would hurt you later, a knowledge that you were going to get hurt and you probably deserved it.
Its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive him-self'.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
Deceit with sternness, ignorance with pride,
Avarice cripples virtue and lies in ambush for honesty. My
Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception
There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.
Secrets and lies ... Everyone in the world deals with these every day of their lives.
To protect themselves. To protect someone else. It is all in the way that you look at the
situation.
of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
That when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.
A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.
What is the good of a man being honest in his worship of dishonesty?
Hard to put things right. You don't often get that chance. Sometimes all you can do is not get caught.
There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."
When we presume to lie for the benefit of others, we have decided that we are the best judges of how much they should understand about their own lives - about how they appear, their reputations, or their prospects in the world.
Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.
Lying is the greatest of all sins.
When you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!
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.
The first dishonest act is the most important one to prevent.
Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.
It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.
What is dignity without honesty?
To conceal an action is deceit. Even the husband is not aware of the deceit [by wife]. Lying is also deceit.
You're cheating people who trust you.
Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.
Clothing is dishonesty in its purest form.
Deceit knew no boundaries.
covetousness. But,
Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.
Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it.
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.
Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.
Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
Integrity- What you would do if you knew you would never be found out
There is no profit in deceit. An honest man knows revenge is not sweet.
Integrity - Take the harder right over the easier wrong.
If a person trusts you and you deceive him, it's fraud. If a person doesn't trust you, it's politics.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
People want to work with somebody who feels shame, who worries about the perceptions of others. Dishonesty is something we don't like in others.
Lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.
Guilt soon learns to lie.
taking unfair advantage of folks of good will and had become
To the cheater, there is no such thing as honesty, and to Republicans the idea of serving the public good is counterfeit on the face of it - they never felt such an urge, and therefore it must not exist.
Words not kept break more than a promise.
Honesty is a most dreadful quality - it makes people difficult to manipulate,
Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
When you tell a lie, everything that you say in the future may be treated as suspect.
Whatever the reason, lying is a bad thing.
Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.
The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people.
Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put
Honesty ... is the foundation upon which relationships and many societies are built. Without it ... there can be no trust. Widespread lying destroys the fabric of democratic societies, in which the necessary assumption is that people mostly tell the truth.
A lie was an admission of weakness, evidence that you needed to fear the target of your dishonesty.
Bad decisions, good intentions.
[On dishonesty:] If there were a cry of 'stop thief!' we would all stand still.
When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.
honestly--then dishonestly.
lie; secrets and deceit will ultimately undermine a relationship's stability, durability, and longevity. Friedrich
Deception, you see, lies at the heart of business, politics and war. Even pleasure, wouldn't you say? Everyone practises it, from the President of China to the whores on Lockhart Road.
Honesty was a thing that could never be a thing. In a blaze of hubris and misplaced enthusiasm, we kowtowed to it, thinking it would make us better people, but conveniently forgetting that an abstraction was incompatible with the specificity of a human's needs and wants.
Liars often set their own traps.
Love cannot reconcile with deception
It's a sad reflection on society how many people are shocked by honesty ... and how few by dishonesty.
The most dangerous person ever to deceive is yourself, for in doing so you destroy your basis for honesty. Honesty is the foundation of intelligence, while dishonesty is the foundation of stupidity.