Pastoral Resources

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

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

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

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

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

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

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

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.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

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.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.