Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986
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Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbHe that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbIn most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCThe poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCLife is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BC