Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

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

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

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

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

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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