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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Cheating is more honorable than stealing.