How we cite our quotes: (Name of Play, Act #)
Quote #7
BRANT: I knew it! I've had a feeling in my bones! It serves me right, what has happened and is to happen! It wasn't the kind of revenge I had sworn on my mother's body! I should have done as I wanted—fought with Ezra Mannon as two men fight for the love of a woman! I have my father's rotten coward blood in me, I think. Aye! (The Hunted, Act 4)
Clearly, Lavinia and Orin aren't the only ones with issues. Still, you have to admit that as bad a guy as Brant is (and he's pretty awful), he never really wanted to play the same deceitful game that Christine didn't mind playing. He thinks he should have fought up front, man to man, with Ezra. But the lying Mannon blood got the better of him. Brant sees his own lies as stemming from cowardice.
Quote #8
ORIN: I see! So in case I did tell you—oh, she's cunning! But not cunning enough this time! You remember what I've given you, Hazel, and you do exactly what I said with it. For God's sake, Hazel, if you love me help me to get away from here—or something terrible will happen!
HAZEL: That's just what I want to do! You can come over tomorrow and stay with us.
ORIN: Do you suppose for a moment she'll ever let me go?
HAZEL: But haven't you a right to do as you want to?
ORIN: I could sneak out when she wasn't looking—and then you could hide me and when she came for me tell her I wasn't there.
HAZEL: I won't do any such thing! I don't tell lies, Orin! How can you be so scared of Vinnie? (The Haunted, Act 3)
Notice how Lavinia has turned into her domineering and lying mother. But leave it to the Niles kids to show us how decent people act. Hazel makes a point of refusing to get involved with the Mannon family pattern of lying. It's no coincidence that Orin trusts her with his book of truths about the family.