Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.
—Jean Genet, 1986
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If 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, 1822An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.
—Maxim Gorky, 1902Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.
—Czeslaw Milosz, 1946The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.
—Publilius Syrus, c. 50 BCYou can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
—Bill Clinton, 1996Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbSomeone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Life is the art of being well deceived.
—William Hazlitt, c. 1817