Quotes About Deception

A dainty rogue in porcelain

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-mindedness. It's that that makes the ruin and horrors I see. Why mayn't they do what men do? I like the women who are brave enough not to be hypocrites. By Heaven! if these women are bad, I like them better than a set of hypocritical creatures who are all show, and deceive you in the end.

Cover me with kisses and lies

Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.

Lord Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, shit gold.

Tears aren't a woman's only weapon. The best one's between your legs.

I will hurt you for this. A day will come when you think you are safe and happy and your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you will know the debt is paid.

If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.

Your king says he betrayed me for love. I say he betrayed me for firm t*ts and a tight fit. And I can respect that.

Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm a different dwarf with a hideous facial scar.'" Both Lannisters laughed at the absurdity of it all. (Tyrion Lannister)

The title was but a courtesy due him as a council member; Varys was lord of nothing but the spiderweb, the master of none but his whisperers.

When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

And who are you, the proud Lord said that I must bow so low? Only a cat of a different coat, that's all the truth I know. In a coat of gold or a coat of red, a lion still has claws. And, mine are as long and sharp, my Lord as long and sharp as yours. And so he spoke, and so he spoke, that Lord of Castamere, but now the rains weep o'er his hall, with no one there to hear. Yes, now the rains weep o'er his hall, and not a soul to hear.

George R.R. Martin

The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.

Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers.