There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCHe that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbGrow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946