Sherrilyn Kenyon Quotes

I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.

I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

It was unfair that people could pretend to be one thing when they were really something else. That they would get you on their side and then do nothing but fail, and fail, and fail again. People should come with warnings, like cigarette packs: involvement would kill you over time.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.

Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

I hate when people use my tactics against me.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

Trust makes way for treachery.

It is not wise to trust a man with a deceitful speech ... for he will definitely manipulate your sayings and give a different meaning to your saying and decisions, for he would not care to keep the truth intact

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

When a man tells me he's going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.

He would double-cross and destroy the reputation of anybody.

Goddamn bitch set me up!