An honest man is all right even if he’s an idiot…but a crook must have brains.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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.

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

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

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

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