Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.
—Patricia Highsmith, 1960
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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.
—Plautus, c. 200 BCIf 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, 1546In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar, 52 BCMen were born to lie, and women to believe them.
—John Gay, 1728Cheating is more honorable than stealing.
—German proverbThere is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1738There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
—Virginia Woolf, 1927