Mercedes Lackey Quotes

The order said to decoy the emigrants from hiding and kill all those who could talk.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

... a lying son of a bitch.

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

When they [the Briton Nobles] are sufficiently inebriated, I will cry out, 'Nimed eure Saxes,' then let each draw his knife, and kill his man; but spare the king [Vortigern], on account of his marriage with my daughter, for it is better that he should be ransomed than killed.

On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.

In life, unfortunately, I've had multiple experiences where people that I thought I could depend on have switched up, or I've caught them in lies, and their true colours have shown.

I'm not saying all men are likely to cheat.

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

There's daggers in men's smiles.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.

The devil, you see, is that friend who never stays with us to the end.