Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbQuotes
There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCAnd, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986You 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. 1875If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbIf 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. 1817