If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, they usually admit it – often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect.
Notoriety of the right kind is the best way of disarming suspicion.
Keeping a secret is an art that requires many lies magnificently told, and a great aptitude for playing the comedy and enjoying it.
Very few of us are what we seem to be.
The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.
Talk of woman’s instinct – why, it is well known all the world over that a woman is the surest mark for any rascally swindler. Not one in ten of them knows a scoundrel when she meets one.
Some of the greatest criminals I have known had the faces of angels. A malformation of the grey cells may coincide quite easily with the face of a Madonna.
One must accept truth. It’s no good basing your life on a lie because it’s what you want to believe.
Men have courage – one knows that, but they are more easily deceived than women.
Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.
It was wise to beware of people who were not telling the truth.
If the spider lets the fly walk out too easily, the fly might suspect it was a put-up job.
