Quotes About Deception

Si se puede traicionar a un hombre una vez, no es tan difícil hacerlo dos veces

fine lies beat tedious truths every time,

If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid." "The

Un banco con reputación de benevolencia es como una puta con reputación de castidad, siempre temes que no vayan a hacer el trabajo.

God! Why did she insist on demanding from people what she knew they could never give her? Why did she insist on making the same mistakes over and over? Why was she fooled so easily every time? Because she wanted to be fooled.

You put a mask on a person, something weird happens. Changes the way they act along with the way they look. Sometimes they don't seem like people at all no more, but something else.

What use are straight answers in a crooked world?

It may be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many.

Someone who'd starved in the camps, who'd lied her way into the hearts and beds of good people, who'd tricked and tortured to betray a cause she halfway believed in for the sake of one she didn't at all, might've felt a little bitter at seeing all this money wasted.

beware most of clever men who look like fools

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

Command was a trick. You had to spread the illusion that you knew what you were doing as deep and as wide through your men as you could. Spread the illusion and hope for the best.

The people far prefer a leader who appears great, Bialoveld wrote, to one who is.

What proof could there be, after all? A birthmark on Luthar's arse in the shape of a crown? Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes. And most of us would far rather have a king with no friends and no enemies, than a king with plenty of both. Most of us would rather have things stay as they are, than risk an uncertain future.

Because he'd been hoping... perhaps he still was. But hoping had made a fool of him. And Shivers was good and sick of looking the fool.

Is it gold?' asked the lad. 'Copper,' she lied, since gold is apt to turn unpleasant meetings into deadly ones.

A good liar lies as little as possible.

People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they might even suddenly notice the strings around their own wrists.

Hay tareas para las que no valen los hombres de fiar. Los conejos se cazan con comadrejas, no con bueyes.

You don't plan... to fight, Your Majesty?' 'Bloody hell, no. But I plan to damn well look like I might.

Sometimes pretty lies win the day. But sometimes ugly truths cut deeper.

Dark times are the best for dark business,

They're in there? Morveer and his little echo?

No one was safe in Valbeck now. Perhaps no one ever truly was. Perhaps safety was a lie people told themselves so they could carry on.