Quotes About Deception

look of fury, a look of pain, a look of hatred you can trust. A smile can hide anything.

Give me only evil men for friends, Verturio wrote. Them I understand.

He'd played at being a different man, but it had all been lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.

So this is all about appeareances?` murmured Vick. 'Being king IS all about appeareances,' said Orso. 'An endless perfomance with no chance for an encore and for damn sure no applause.

Gold and silver is everything to everyone. Some of us have enough of it to pretend otherwise.

If you can't make your enemies trust you, you can at least make them mistrust each other.

You, that judge men by the handle and the sheath, how can I make you know a good blade?' Jedediah

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you.

I daresay that's a better-looking man there. A cleverer man.' He ran one hand through his short dark hair, frowning at his reflection. 'Not sure if I trust that bastard, though.

A good liar tells as much truth as he can. That way you never know what you're getting.

And loyalty? A trick those with power played on those without to make them act against their own interests.

The truth is overrated." Vick let the purse drop into his hand. "An actor should know that.

Reassuring lies had always been the glue that held his family together, after all.

Olyan rendben tartsd a hazugságaidat, mint a télire eltett vet?magot.

There are a hundred reasons to carry a blade in a slaughterhouse. But there can only ever be one reason to try and hide one.

You would have had to look far and wide to find anyone less beautiful than the big nine-fingered bastard. He sat in his saddle slumped over like some great sack of rice. Slow-moving, scratching, sniffing, chewing like a big cow. Trying to look like he had no killing in him, no mad fury, no devil. She knew better. He nodded to her and she scowled back. He was a devil wearing a cow's skin, and she was not fooled.

The door beside him opened sharply and Glokta snapped his head round, doing his best to hide a grimace as his neck bones crunched. Lord Ingelstad stood

Helping people was always a mistake... Trust was a word for fools. It was a word people used when they meant to betray you.

Laž se može pretvoriti u istinu ako se izvikuje dovoljo ?esto.

Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.

No one had the answers. Worse. There weren't any. The best you could do was play a long con and act as if you had them. Never show fear. Never show doubt.

Trust. It was a word that only liars used. A word the truthful has no need of.

In my experience, a friend is merely an acquaintance who has yet to betray you. Is that what you are, Harker?

El oro y la plata lo son todo para todos. Algunos tenemos suficiente para poder fingir que no.