"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander" — Napoleon

Diplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar

When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad ones

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Source: The Poetical Works of John Dryden, volume 1

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Napoleon Quote