“Kabalka Five? That’s an alien world, isn’t it?” “It doesn’t take aliens long to find out what men will do for gold,” she replied. - Mike Resnick

He was destined to desert me."
"How do you know I won't?"
"Because you are selfish enough and greedy enough and immoral enough to realize that your best interest lies in total fealty to me," she replied.
"I don't know that I especially like that assessment of me," said the Kid.
"The question is not whether you like it," replied Penelope, "but whether it is true.

You have many wonderful qualities, Virtue—you lie and cheat and blackmail and bluff with great panache, and you’re thoroughly delightful in bed—but you simply aren’t a skilled professional killer.

“Then, if there are no further objections, I think I’ll take my leave of you,” he said, walking to the door. “I crave the company of honest men and women.”
“I doubt that the feeling is mutual,” said Cain.