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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

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.

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

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

Cheating is more honorable than stealing. 

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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