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Children and fools cannot lie. 

—John Heywood, 1546

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991

Life is the art of being well deceived.

—William Hazlitt, c. 1817

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

—Marguerite Duras, 1987

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

—Bill Clinton, 1996

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BC

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

—Lord Byron, 1822

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

—Virginia Woolf, 1927

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

—Patricia Highsmith, 1960

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

—German proverb

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947