Quotes About Deception

Ghastly Bespoke's opinions were not always right. It was his opinion, for example, that he could stand with his back to you and you wouldn't stick a knife in it. How wrong he was.

I thought we were a team," Annis said. Tanith looked down at her. "We are a team." "And Sabine? Wasn't she part of it, too?" "She was a very important part. She was payment." "Are you going to betray us like you betrayed her?

Do you remember what Crux said?" Scorn asked China. "I bet you do. He said that you handed Skulduggery Pleasant's wife and child over to Nefarian Serpine. He said that you led them to their deaths... Blackmail is just an ugly, ungainly word, but these are ugly and ungainly times in which we live. You will do as I say, exactly as I say, or I will tell the Skeleton Detective your terrible, terrible secret. Do you agree to my terms?

You didn't hear me right. I didn't say 'a mug of poisoned tea'. I said 'a poisoned mug of tea'. It was the handle I poisoned... Laken Cross, you are an evil man for coming here to kill me and you're an evil man for forcing me to do what I had to do. I hope you burn in whatever hell you believe in. - Finbar

I'm very busy." "The sign on the door said closed." Finbar shook his head. "Never trust a door; they'll always lie to you.

As a wise man once said—" "You, right?" "—never underestimate a heart of evil—" "I bet it was you." "—for in that heart you can—" "It was you, wasn't it?" "Yes, it was me,

Its roof sagged and let in water when it rained, its walls groaned and let in wind when it blew, and its doors creaked and let in hypocrites when it suited.

Well," Skulduggery said, "purely to get this out of the way, I'll just go ahead and say it. There does not seem to be any sign of a railway track on the carpet or, indeed, a train hiding behind the sofa. And I don't think one could have fitted through the door.

Ryan, you're not real. You don't exist... You're Deacon Maybury," Skulduggery said. "You're a hiding place who thinks it's a boy.

This is preposterous. Why would I lie? I'm not a criminal. The criminals are the ones in the cells." - Mien "The prisoners are the ones in the cells," Skulduggery corrected. "Criminals can be anyywhere.

Valkyrie knelt, tried to pull his hand away from his shoulder. "Did he shoot you? Did he hit you?" "He damaged my jacket," Skulduggery said, but, when she managed to pull his hand away, his façade's skin was rippling and fragments of bone fell to the floor. "It's just my clavicle," he said. "I have a spare.

He said he was Lord Vile. - Skulduggery

Lil' Darlin - Billy-Ray Sanguine

Skulduggery took a small spool of thread from his pocket and started wrapping it around the door handles. "That'll hold?" Valkyrie asked sceptically. "This is Resolute Thread. The more pressure applied, the stronger it gets. It's very rare. They say it was made from the stomach lining of an emperor dragon, over 2000 years ago." "Was it?" "No, it's just really strong thread.

A guy in a stupid mask asked me not to tell you he exists," she said, reaching back to pet Xena. Skulduggery nodded. "Fair enough.

The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.

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

The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.

If everything had a label, we would live in a fully delineated but false world.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.