Alongside all swindlers the state now stands there as swindler-in-chief.

It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most.

There is much difference between imitating a good man, and counterfeiting him.

And, after all, what is a lie? ’Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Men were born to lie, and women to believe them.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.