He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732
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Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCCredulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986