Michael Chabon Quotes

Love fattens on smooth words.

Men's vows are women's traitors!

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it's sometimes far worse to emotionally cheat on somebody.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I have cheated. But I don't regret it because we were not serious. I wouldn't have ever done it if I were serious about the girl.

If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering a great number of promissory notes payable at a distant day. The truest conclusion in both cases is, that neither intend or will be able to pay. And as the latter most probably intends to cheat you of your money, so the former at least designs to cheat you of your thanks.

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.