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Quotes About Deception

Esistono due tipi di persone ad Approdo del Re: i giocatori e le pedine. Petyr Baelish "Littlefinger
~ George R.R. Martin
A sweet offer . . . yet sweets can be poisoned.
~ George R.R. Martin
The game of thrones takes many a queer turn.
~ George R.R. Martin
To help me to my grave. I asked for you to leave. Will you make me call my gaolers and have you dragged away, you vile, scheming, evil bitch?
~ George R.R. Martin
And Ser Lyn Corbray?" The candlelight was dancing in his eyes. "Ser Lyn will remain my implacable enemy. He will speak of me with scorn and loathing to every man he meets, and lend his sword to every secret plot to bring me down." That was when her suspicion turned to certainty. "And how shall you reward him for this service?" Littlefinger laughed aloud.
~ George R.R. Martin
Now, who is inside my solar?' 'Lord Littlefinger.' Podrick managed a quick look at his face, then hastily dropped his eyes. 'I meant, Lord Petyr. Lord Baelish. The master of coin.' 'You make him sound a crowd.
~ George R.R. Martin
Robert could piss in a cup and men would call it wine, but I offer them cold clear water and they squint in suspicion and mutter to each other about how queer it tastes.
~ George R.R. Martin
the faint smell of corruption clung to it like a woman's perfume.
~ George R.R. Martin
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them,
~ George R.R. Martin
A lie is not so bad if it is kindly meant. If only she believed them...
~ George R.R. Martin
She bleats like a bloody sheep.
~ George R.R. Martin
Troubled sleep was no stranger to him. He had lived his lies for fourteen years,
~ George R.R. Martin
Renly thought she was absurd. A woman dressed in man's mail, pretending to be a knight." "If he'd ever seen her in pink satin and Myrish lace, he would not have complained.
~ George R.R. Martin
They betrayed me. But they saved me. But they lied. - Daenerys
~ George R.R. Martin
I do. My time is done." Jaqen passed a hand down his face from forehead to chin, and where it went he changed. His cheeks grew fuller, his eyes closer; his nose hooked, a scar appeared on his right cheek where no scar had been before. And when he shook his head, his long straight hair, half red and half white, dissolved away to reveal a cap of tight black curls.
~ George R.R. Martin
I was so careful. How could he know? Someone told. Someone always tells.
~ George R.R. Martin
He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
~ George R.R. Martin
If I had me a nice goose quill and a pot o' maester's ink, I could write down that me member was long and thick as me arm, wouldn't make it so.
~ George R.R. Martin
Robert got a pair of twins on a serving wench at Casterly Rock, three years ago when he went west for Lord Tywin's tourney. Cersei had the babes killed, and sold the mother to a passing slaver.
~ George R.R. Martin
Hear me, Daenerys Targaryen. The glass candles are burning. Soon comes the pale mare, and after her the others. Kraken and dark flame, lion and griffin, the sun's son and the mummer's dragon. Trust none of them. Remember the Undying. Beware the perfumed seneschal.
~ George R.R. Martin
If one head was enough to appease a prince of Dorne, a bag of them should be more than adequate for a fat northman wrapped in sealskins.
~ George R.R. Martin
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. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game." "What … what game?" "The only game. The game of thrones.
~ George R.R. Martin
Fooling folk was simple as singing. Tricking folk and telling lies, it was like breathing. But this? Convincing someone of the truth that they were too twisted to see? How could you even begin?
~ George R.R. Martin
If you share your pans with no one, no one can betray you.
~ George R.R. Martin