You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.
—Marguerite Duras, 1987Children and fools cannot lie.
—John Heywood, 1546We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
—Tennessee Williams, 1953Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCAn honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.
—Jacob Burckhardt, c. 1875Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BC