“Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable if contriving to give one an utterly unabiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but tgey never lie. Perish the thought.
–from Look to Windward by Iain M. Banks
