Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.
—Congolese proverbAnd, 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, 1947There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCCheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverb