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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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

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

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

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