Quotes About Manipulation

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man's heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.

Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.

In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

[JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected.

I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history.

[ Negro leaders] never let the white man know exactly what black people are thinking.

The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes.

Even a fool can deceive a man - if he be a bigger fool than himself.

You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.

No fox is foxier than man!