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.

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

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

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.

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

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.

Children and fools cannot lie. 

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.