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.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

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.

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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