Dishonest Quotes

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

There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

The men who made the war were profuse in their praises of the man who kicked the P.M. out of his office and now degrades by his disloyal, dishonest and lying presence the greatest office in the State.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it; to work around it.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.

I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.

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

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

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

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

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were 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.