We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

Anyone who’s never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn’t know what pleasure is.

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

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