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

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

In most cases men willingly believe what they wish.

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

If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little.

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

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

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

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

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

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

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

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