He that will cheat you at play, will cheat you any way.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

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

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

If you find excrement somewhere in the village, the chief was the one who put it there.

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.