Devious Quotes

“I must have ice in my veins to do what I just did. I expect the ice to melt...But it doesn't. It just gets colder and colder...And I welcome it.”
― Erin Hunter, The Rise of Scourge

“Even with all this power, it comes down to the same old things. Connections, money, influence.”
― Edward Williams

“What seemed at first like an act of incandescent self-destruction turned out to be the onramp to a bleak treadmill, one that felt designed to eradicate my personality and identity. It didn’t end my self-recrimination and misery. Instead, it illustrated just how good I’d had it living on the street.”
― Edward Williams

“The most dangerous people in the world are not the tiny minority instigating evil acts, but those who do the acts for them – for a paycheck. To act without a conscience, but for a paycheck, makes anyone a dangerous animal. The devil would be powerless if he couldn’t entice people to do his work. So as long as money continues to seduce the hungry, the hopeless, the broken, the greedy, and the needy, there will always be war between people.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming megalomaniacs. It was probably in the job description: "Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted minister.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

“Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.”
― Jennifer Harrison, Write like no one is reading 2

“How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that way, and if that were true, then I'd sort of had a hand in it, in making him as smart and devious as he was. I was really starting to dislike the guy. But I also felt a little proud, like Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his monster turned on him, because after all, it was Dr. Frankenstein who had made the monster strong and cunning enough to turn on him.”
― Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

“Love is the first and most devious deceiver, the most seductive delusion.”
― J. Earp

“What the devil's wrong with devious? Devious gets the job done, doesn't it?”
― Nora Roberts, The Winning Hand

“Whatever sacrifices I made for you are none of your business. All you gotta do is grow and be happy. Then I'll have everything I've ever wanted.”
― Zoila, Devious Maids

“The problem with the truth is that it will demand everything of us, but in the end it will give everything to us. If we make it ‘relative’ it will demand nothing of us, but in the end it will take everything from us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Lara smiled. Not a soft smile, no—a cruel smile, filled with malice and enmity. A smile worn by tyrants and murderers and deviants.”
― Iris Rivers

“I think he’s just a really nice guy.”

“Uh-oh.” Eve chuckled, winding spaghetti around her fork. “It’s always the nice Alphas you have to be suspicious of—haven’t you heard?”
― Jane Washington, Plier