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Dishonesty is the quality of being untruthful or deceitful

• Dishonesty: Deceitfulness shown in someone’s character or behaviour.  Oxford Dictionary
• Dishonesty: A disposition to lie, cheat, or steal.  Dictionary.com
• Dishonesty: A lack of honesty: the quality of being untruthful or deceitful.  Merriam Webster
• Lying,  Deceit,  Distrust,  Stealing,  Infidelity,  Honesty,  Integrity,  Trust

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Dishonesty is falsehood

• The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. Abu Bakr
• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates
• Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair. Danish Proverb

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Dishonesty is not making an honest living

• There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. …Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labour of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest. Ralph Moody

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Dishonesty is concealing faults from yourself and others

• Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them. Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Dishonesty is not being who you are

• One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest. Kay Redfield Jamison
• Be who you are

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Dishonesty is not living according to your beliefs

• To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. Mahatma Gandhi
• Belief

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In the short term, dishonesty often profits more than honesty…

• Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. Plato
• Honesty pays, but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people. Kin Hubbard
• If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. C. Lichtenberg

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… but the gains don’t usually last long …

• Ill-gotten wealth is never stable. Euripides
• Money made through dishonest practices will not last long. Chinese Proverbs
• That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. Matthew Henry
• What is dishonourably got, is dishonourably squandered. Cicero
• Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.  Democritus
• Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages. Christian Nestell Bovee

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… while the price you pay can last a life time

• Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. Chilon
• The gains of the wicked bring short-lived pleasure, but afterwards long-continued grief. Antiphanes
• Honesty doesn’t always pay, but dishonesty always costs. Michael Josephson

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Dishonesty does damage to both victim and perpetrator

• 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
• It is hard to say which of the two we ought most to lament,–the unhappy man who sinks under the sense of his dishonour, or him who survives it. Junius

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Dishonesty often ends in ruin

• Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin. Share Hesiod
• Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin. Henry Ward Beecher

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Winning by dishonest means is no victory

• Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success. Akhenaton
• Steroids is cheating, and winning without honour is not winning. Curt Schilling
• Victory

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Dishonesty is the great enemy of trust

• Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. Stephen Leacock
• Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. Eric Hoffer
• Natural laws (like gravity) and principles (like respect, honesty, kindness, integrity, and fairness) control the consequences of our choices. Just as you get bad air and bad water when you consistently violate the environment, so also is trust (the glue of relationships) destroyed when you’re consistently unkind and dishonest to people. Stephen Covey
• Trust

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Dishonesty can be so grasping, it would deceive even friends and God

• So grasping is dishonesty, that it is no respecter of persons; it will cheat friends as well as foes; and were it possible, would cheat even God himself. George Bancroft
• He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. Johann Kaspar Lavater
• Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. George Bancroft
• Friendship,  God

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Dishonesty doesn’t always have to be what the law prohibits

• Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy. Thomas Jefferson

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The very fear of being deceived can lead to dishonesty

• Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived. Vauvenargues

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The intellect can be dishonest

• And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect. Leo Tolstoy

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Religion can bring out dishonesty

• Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanour. Sigmund Freud
• Religion

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Ambition can bring out dishonesty

• It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths. Sallust
• Ambition

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Speaking ill of others could be seen as a kind of dishonesty

• To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Will Durant

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Being unpunctual could be seen as a kind of dishonesty

• 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

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Doing taxes very often brings out dishonesty

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

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Anger is rarely dishonest

• Anger cannot be dishonest. Marcus Aurelius
• Anger

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Corruption is a great form of dishonesty

• Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigour from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution. Edmund Burke
• Our first duty is to war against dishonesty … war against it in public life, and … war against it in business life. Corruption in every form is the arch enemy of this Republic, the arch enemy of free institutions and of government by the people, an even more dangerous enemy than the open lawlessness of violence, because it works in hidden and furtive fashion. Theodore Roosevelt

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We’re often dishonest with ourselves

• There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives. Todd Rundgren
• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self. All sin is easy after that. Pearl Bailey

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There can be a fine line between honest and dishonesty and its best not to tread it

• There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other.   Henry, Rolling Stones

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Take a stand for honesty

• The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. Fulton J. Sheen

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• I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen
• A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. L. Mencken
• About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. Josh Billings
• Accomplice: One who lacks brains as well as honesty.
• Acting is all about honesty and if you can fake that you’ve got it made. George Burns
• Ambassador: An honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country. Henry Wotton
• Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything. Chuck Klosterman
• Bogey: The number of strokes needed to finish a hole by a golfer of average skill and above-average honesty.
• Dating: An elaborate prelude to mating that fulfils much the same function as the sniffing ritual in dogs but without its forthright honesty.
• Honest politician: One who, when he is bought, will stay bought.   Simon Cameron
• Honesty is a good thing but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Don Marquis
• Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it. Mark Twain
• Honesty is the best policy but insanity is a better defence. Steve Landesberg
• Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you’re in. Rich Jeni
• Honesty pays but it doesn’t seem to pay enough to suit some people. Frank  …Kin’ Hubbard
• Honesty: The fear of being caught.
• I was walking along Adderley Street the other day with an honest politician and kind lawyer. We saw a R20 note in the gutter. Which of us do you think picked it up? Answer: Me! The other two do not exist.
• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.  Lily Tomlin
• Once a man wants to hold a public office, he is absolutely no good for honest work. Will Rogers
• People are still willing to do an honest day’s work; the trouble is they want a week’s pay for it. Joey Adams
• The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return; it’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale. Arthur C. Clarke
• The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing if you can fake that you’ve got it made.   Groucho Marx
• The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age. Lucille Ball
• There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink”  and  “an honest politician.”    L. Mencken
• The way my luck is running if I was a politician I would be honest. Rodney Dangerfield
• There’s one way to find out if a man is honest – ask him  if he says “Yes”  you know he is a crook.   Groucho Marx
• Though I am not naturally honest I am so sometimes by chance. William Shakespeare

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