Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbQuotes
If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCCredulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCSomeone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947