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

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

The poor man is ruined as soon as he begins to ape the rich.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

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

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