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Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

—Jean Genet, 1986

He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.

—Thomas Fuller, 1732

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

—Lord Byron, 1822

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, 52 BC

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.

—John Gay, 1728

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

—Tennessee Williams, 1953

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1738

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

—Joseph Joubert, 1811

Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

—Maxim Gorky, 1902