There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927
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And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.
—Lord Byron, 1822He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.
—Mobutu Sese Seko, 1991Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbThere is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.
—Joseph Joubert, 1811