Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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