“You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.”
“If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.”
“I'm not a gentle pony... I promise you, you will have to work to keep your seat.”
“The good psychologist is ambivalent about people, because he knows well their treacherous nature, their potential for destruction, delusion and deceit.”
“The heart is deceitful above all things and desperated wicked: who can know it?”
“As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.”