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

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

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

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

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

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

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