Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 15
2015, Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (2015)
Letter to John Wilson Croker (29 December 1835), quoted in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers: The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830, Vol. II (1884), p. 288
“Art is just fraud. You just have to do something nobody else has done before.”
In interview with a Korean newspaper, quoted in: KoreAm Journal, Vol. 17 (2006), p. 79
1970s
[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 692]
“These are called the pious frauds of friendship.”
Book VI, Ch. 6
Amelia (1751)
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
“War isn't a fraud, Charlie, it's very real.”
Emily Barham
The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Context: War isn't a fraud, Charlie, it's very real. At least that's what you always tried to tell me, isn't it? That we shall never get rid of war by pretending it's unreal? It's the virtue of war that's the fraud, not war itself. It's the valor and the self-sacrifice and the goodness of war that needs the exposing. And here you are being brave and self-sacrificing, positively clanking with moral fervor, perpetuating the very things you detest merely to do "the right thing". Honestly, Charlie, your conversion to morality is really quite funny. All this time I've been terrified of becoming Americanized, and you, you silly ass, have turned into a bloody Englishman
“Let fraud supply the want of force in war.”
From Book II of Dryden's Aeneid; no exact Latin equivalent exists in Virgil's work, but compare: "Dolus, an virtus, quis in hoste requirat?" (Aeneid 2.390).
Misattributed
