Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIt was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCAnd, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbSomeone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947