Quotes About Deception

Los irónicos siempre se deshacen cuando se ven confrontados con la más absoluta sinceridad, es su kriptonita.

We weren't ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves - surprise! - we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.

I'm a big fan of the lie of omission.

The Woman in White.

They say you can litter-box train them, but they lie.

Since little-girlhood, we're trained to find the Big Bad Wolf seductive.

books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe.

Truth is a deadly weapon, Lady said.

Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?" "I don't know. The falling sickness?" "Give him some of his own soup," somebody suggested. "Serve him right." A tin cup appeared. We forced its contents down his throat. His eye clicked open. "What are you trying to do? Poison me? Feh! What was that? Boiled sewage?" "Your soup," I told him.

Quite unwittingly I saved the lives of twenty enemies of the Stranglers scheduled to be tortured and murdered during the night. The priests freed them to tell the world that the Deceivers were real and had found their messiah, that those who did not come to Kina soon would be devoured in the Year of the Skulls. A fun bunch of guys, Croaker would say.

Over coming days, when I sneaked down to the Buskin, he revealed everything recorded where he appears as the focal character. I do not think I have met many men who disgusted me more. Nastier

Raven is an asset in any game including One-Eye. One-Eye cheats. But never when Raven is playing.

Smeds could see the shadow of the future. Get Old Man Fish and Timmy Locan to kype the spike. Get dumb old Smeds to croak them when they do. Then take the loot and walk. Who is Smeds going to complain to when he has the blood of two men on his hands? That would be just like Tully. Just like him.

More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way. Few villains think they are villains.

The appearance of sincerity counts for more than actual truthfulness. People only need to believe for a few minutes at a time.

Narayan will pay. I will tear his heart out and use it to choke his goddess. They do not know what they have awakened. My strength has returned. They will pay. Longshadow, my sister, the Deceivers, Kina herself if she gets in my way. Their Year of the Skulls is upon them. I close the Book of Lady.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors, and thieves. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BC)

Everything about Butch was like puffed air and cotton candy, but it thrilled her anyway whenever he straightened up to call to her through the tall grass.

Lie to everyone in this man's world if need be, but never lie to yourself, because that's the quickest road to destruction.

You didn't have to stab yourself on stage. All that blood —" "It was ketchup." "It was gross

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, I'll conk you with this pet carrier!

He's right, actually. I'm an awesome patient. As soon as I hear him on the stairs, I spit out the three capsules I stored in my cheek and bury them in the soil of the geranium. That's what the thing's dying of—a drug overdose.

Do you know there's such a thing as Tater Tots? Back in Happy Valley, they told us we always had the very best, but we didn't have Tater Tots. Another Osiris lie.

If it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck." Well, that isn't always true. It looks like Ambrose, and it talks like Ambrose. But no way that's Ambrose.