Quotes About Deception

When possible, never let the enemy know what you know.

Hatred of McDover. And money. I convinced our mole that this could lead to riches. I just hope I don't get anyone killed.

Fats knew the playbook and was adept at the dirty tricks: stuffing ballot boxes, raising large sums of unreported money, buying blocks of votes, spreading lies, intimidating voters, harassing poll workers, bribing election officials, and voting dead people with absentee ballots.

What if they find the car?" "They'll find it, and they'll throw a blanket over Panama City Beach. You've got to be careful. After dark, try to sneak into a drugstore and buy some hair dye. Cut your hair extremely short and dye it blond." "Blond!" "Or red. I don't give a damn.

I'm sure that if I stay in this business I'll one day think of a dirtier trick, but one's hard to imagine now.

She spent a fortune on clothes and jewelry, more than you would expect from a person with her salary. She got a new secretary every other year because she didn't want anyone to get too close. She was aloof, distant, always tough, but she never suspected me because I kept my distance.

Turning to Darnley, she demanded, "Why have you caused to do this wicked deed to me

Huntly had planned to attack the town, burn down the house where he was staying and assassinate Maitland in his sleep.

DARNLEY'S MURDER involved three distinct elements: a conspiracy, a crime and a cover-up.

By October 12, she had decided to destroy him.

Asked point-blank about Mary's opinion of him, Melville dissembled.

Cecil's minute is too good to be true. It is almost certainly misleading.

Moreover, we have already seen that letters 7 and 8 were forgeries on the evidence of their contents.

and Mary was to lure Darnley to his fate at Kirk o'Field.

The Guises had played their poker game and lost.

believing that whatever else she did, she would be surrounded by treachery and deceit.

Meanwhile, Darnley was furiously plotting against his wife.

Mary was betrayed by her own family, who failed to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Two letters would be about Darnley's murder

By acquiescing in the treaty of Edinburgh, her uncles had betrayed her.

AT EIGHT O'CLOCK on the fatal Saturday evening, Darnley led Lord Ruthven and an accomplice through his private apartments

All I see is someone running away from who he really is. I ain't running away, I called back. And that was the biggest lie I'd ever told.

success does not mean you cannot be tricked.

measure up - disillusion us by showing