Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbQuotes
In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCMen were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCHonesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732