#shone

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #dishonest #good #good thing

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

— Dario Fo

#games #involved #justification #mode #nevertheless

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. ↗

— Dalton Trumbo

#citizen #democracy #dishonesty #enough #every

It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#dishonest #found #guitar #guitars #people

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world. ↗

— George Whitefield

#book #find #generations #god #kinds

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

— Ivan Goncharov

#avoid #dishonest #making #needed #offer

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

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#brother #dishonesty #honesty #inaccuracy #twin

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#every #every man #labor #lives #man

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#dishonest #free #heart #life #man

Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#critical #cut #destroys #dishonest #emotions