“Deliberately manipulative liars can also reveal their lie more overtly by reacting aggressively or defensively to their victims when called out for their lies.”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com
“Well, the perfect victim, from the sociopath’s point of view, is the person who is smart enough and capable enough to do him some good in the world and who is also fun to manipulate. How much fun is it to manipulate someone who is stupid and incompetent? Another good person to manipulate is someone…”— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com
“Another lynchpin is dishonesty. Lying for the sake of lying. Lying just to see whether you can trick people. And sometimes telling larger lies to get larger effects. The other thing that needs to be stressed is that sociopaths are often extremely charming. They are people who are better than you and…”— Martha Stout, interviewmagazine.com
“When caught in a lie or challenged with the truth, they are seldom perplexed or embarrassed - they simply change their stories or attempt to rework the facts so that they appear to be consistent with the lie.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com
“Lying, deceiving and manipulation are natural talents for psychopaths. With their powers of imagination in gear and focused on themselves, psychopaths appear amazingly unfazed by the possibility - or even by the certainty - of being found out.”— Robert D. Hare, amazon.com