#dishonesty

Lying is done with words, and also with silence. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#lies #silence #words #honor

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#broken-hearts #dishonesty #growth #hearts #judgement

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#falsehood #greatest #honesty #truth #truth is

Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#abuse #against #care #chicanery #democracy

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ↗

— George Bancroft

#dishonesty #god #grasping #himself #honesty is

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#believe #blame #character #dishonesty #flaws

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#dishonesty #issue #moral #moral issue #proved

Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#lies #life

All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind. ↗

— Carl L. Becker

#historians #history #age

DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#deceit #dishonesty #falsehood #hearts #honesty