There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Quotes
In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCCheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbAnyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCGrow 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 proverb