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

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

Honesty, for me, is usually the worst policy imaginable.

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

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

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

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

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

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