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.

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

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

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

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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

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