Quotes About Deception

Bez w?tpienia elfowie odrobili lekcj? ju? dawno temu. Nie musz? mami? ludzi, bo ludzie sami si? mami?.

Lying on his bed feels like wiping my dirty peasant feet on the throne.

The feeling of being fooled, the shame of it, haunts me. It tangles up my thoughts.

I poisoned you. Don't worry. It was a small dose. You'll live." "The cups of wine," he says. "But how did you know which one I would choose?" "I didn't," I tell him, thinking that he'll be at least a little pleased by the answer, despite himself. It is the kind of strategy he likes best. "I poisoned them both.

They do not need to deceive humans. Humans will deceive themselves.

One doesn't have to lie to deceive.

He does not seem like someone who has been carrying poisoned spies through the snow, someone who has braved an enemy camp. Someone who pushed his magical cloak into my hands. He seems like the person who shoved me into the water and laughed when it closed over my head. Who tricked me.

He rises from the throne. "Come, have a seat." His voice is replete with danger, lush with menace. The flowering branches have sprouted thorns so thickly that petals are barely visible. "This is what you wanted, isn't it?" he asks. "What you sacrificed everything for. Go on. It's all yours.

I lost your cloak,' I croak up at him, my voice coming out all breath. He peers down at me. 'You're a liar,' he says, eyes glittering with fury. 'A dirty, mortal liar.' I close my eyes again against the harshness of his words.

Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same. So too, power.

I look pretty. The kind of pretty that allows monsters to deceive people into forests, into dances where they will find their doom.

by you, i am forever undone" -cardan greenbriar

his kindness was jarring and made me wonder what he wanted in return for it. I was used to tricks, to games.

And yet, what she longed for was for him to slide into bed and put his hand on her shoulder, to tell her he knew she was awake. To say that he loved her desperately and wanted to confess all the things he'd kept from her, and all the reasons for them. It was a childish desire, a wish for the world to not be as it was, for people to act in ways they just didn't. It was the wish of a sucker, ready to be fleeced for everything she had.

HIs words stood as a reminder, though, that no matter how soft he seemed or how young, he was as capable of cruelty as the rest.

Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

I have lied and I have betrayed and I have triumphed. If only there was someone to congratulate me.

Aaron looks like a con man who got hit with a shrink ray and you look like you're going to Catholic school.

Race is a lie, and the people who conjure by it, no matter their color or their politics, are liars.

nobody escapes this sick feeling that comes with discovering, over and over again, that the people you love are not who you thought they were.

There is no more trusting in women.

The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men.

There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder.