Quotes About Deception

is one of the most potent myths in politics, believe me.

Maybe so, but in politics how things look is often more important than what they are.

If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.

An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself? Rand whispered. The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can.

What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

There's an old saying in the Two Rivers Rand said dryly. 'The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold on to your purse.' Another said, The fox often offers to give the duck its pond.

If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

To believe a thing is not to make it true.

Nothing makes Semirhage weep. She gives tears to others, but she has none herself.

Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly.

Only a fool believed women less dangerous than men, but women often seemed to think men fools when it came to women.

Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

The moon by day the sun by night, deaf woman, blind men, jackdaw fool, let the lord of Chaos rule.

how could you possibly look ten women in the face and ask why they had gotten you drunk and made a game of taking your clothes off and putting you to bed?

Never choose the card a man wants you to. Mat should have realized that. It was one of the oldest cons in creation.

Truth almost always did come out in the end, but by the end, truth was often so wrapped around with rumors and speculation and absolute lies that most people never did believe it.

Is it betrayal to betray a traitor?

The Father of Lies never lays simple plans

When she drifted off, she was thinking of Ryne, strangely. A pity if he was afraid of her, now. A great pity if he turned out to be a Darkfriend. He was charming, and quite pretty, really. She did not mind a man wanting to see her unclothed, only his telling others about it.

I kept telling them I didn't know anything about it, but half of them seemed to think that I was lying, and the other half that I was hinting at something.