There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927
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We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbLife is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIt was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947