Lena Headey Quotes

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

Whoever attacks the popular falsehoods of his time will find that a lie defends itself by telling other lies. Nothing is so prolific, nothing can so multiply itself, nothing can lay and hatch as many eggs, as a good, healthy, lie.

… a man steeped in falsehood … who had recourse to the lie whenever it suits his convenience …. He would sell his grandmother for any advantage.

I've never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I've been running for governor, I've been exposed to some of the worst people I've ever known. Liars, cowards, sociopaths.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

Truth is no man's slave - but lies - what magnificent servants they make.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

Avoid flatterers, for they are thieves in disguise.

Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?

Patience is a flatterer, sir, and an ass, sir.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

Everyone wants to put people on, I think. And get away with it! That's the thing: put people on and get away with it! That's a science in itself.

Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

Take a good look around and you'll find people trying to mess with your mind.

My shining dishonesty will be the salvation of me.

False as the fowler's artful snare.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

Hey there.' I cleared my throat. 'How are you?' I'm engaged!' Incidentally, this is an unacceptable answer to that question.