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

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

Children and fools cannot lie. 

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

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

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