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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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