DISHONESTY

Related Subjects: Accuracy, Bribery, Candor, Character, Cheating, Deserving, Exaggeration, Honor, Reality, Sincerity, Temptation, Thief, Trust, Truth

1. Thou shalt not steal.—Bible, Exodus 20:15
   

2. Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.—C. N. BOVEE

3. 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.—DICKENS, Hunted Down
   

4. He who sells what isn't his'n,
   Must buy it back or go to prison.—DANIEL DREW
   

5. A shady business never yields a sunny life.—B. C. FORBES, Forbes Epigrams
   

6. He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.—LAVATER
   

7. For de little stealin' dey gits you in jail soon or late. For de big stealin' dey makes you emperor and puts you in de Hall o' Fame when you croaks. If dey's one thing I learns in ten years on de Pullman cars listenin' to de white quality talk, it's dat same fact.—EUGENE O'NEILL, The Emperor Jones
   

8. He that steals an egg will steal an ox.—Proverb
   

9. It is not a sin to sell dear, but it is to make ill measure.—Proverb
   

10. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

11. "Convey," the wise it call. "Steal!" foh! a fico for the phrase!—SHAKESPEARE,The Merry Wives of Windsor