We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953
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Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCThere is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverb