Quotes About Manipulation

I have a bad habit of playing little emotional games with men. When they date me it's cool in the beginning, we do our thing in the first month, and then I send them on a rollercoaster ride to hell.

Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

The press is owned by wealthy men who only want certain things to reach the public.

Coquettes know how to please, not love, and that is why men love them SO much.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.

You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them.

The game women play is men.

We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Cats like men are flatterers.

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

I am surrounded by flatterers and fools. It can drive a man to madness,.. . Half of them don't dare tell me the truth, and the other half can't find it.

Remove the document—and you remove the man.

My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.

In Haig's presence, Kissinger referred pointedly to military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for foreign policy.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

If you can create even the illusion of high profitability for a few years, then when the thing collapses you can walk out of the wreckage a very rich man.

Every present occasion will catch the senses of the vain man; and with that bridle and saddle you may ride him.

Although the paranoiacs make the great leaders, it's the resenters who make their best instruments because the resenters, those men with cancer of the psyche, make the great assassins.

There are more ways of killing a man's love than by strangling it to death, but that's the usual way.