Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811Quotes
In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCWe have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbSomeone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCCheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbMen were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728Grow 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, 1732There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986