Quotes About Manipulation

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

Complimenting someone in an exaggerated way is known as flattery, and flattery will generally get you anything you want...

I told you," Count Olaf said weakly. "I told you I'd do that one last time.

Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down.

These brats know a lot of words,' Shirley said, in her ridiculously fake high voice. 'They're book addicts. But we can still create an accident and win the fortune!

I'm afraid that's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.

By 'aha' she means 'one minute' Stephano claims he knows nothing about snakes, the next he claims he is an expert! By 'aha' she means 'Stephano has been lying to us'. By 'aha' she means 'we've finally exposed his dishonesty to you'! By 'aha' she means 'aha'!

Listen to this, Sunny," she said, when her sister opened her eyes. "'Once a subject has been hypnotized, a simple hmmm word will make him or her perform whatever hmmm acts any hmmm wants hmmm ed.'" " Hmmm? " Sunny asked. "Those are the words I don't know" Violet explained.

That's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.

Mcguffin," Sunny said, which meant "Your scheming means nothing in this place.

Olaf smiled at them the way Uncle Monty's Mongolian Meansnake would smile when a white mouse was placed in its cage each day for dinner.

Goo goo," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of "I'm going to pretend I'm a helpless baby, instead of answering your question.

Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.

Count Olaf, like any good businessman, has committed a wide variety of crimes.

He trades on emotions, not facts.

Enrolment is tricky. You are telling lies to highly skilled liars.

It doesn't take much to make the daily round with one's employer work smoothly. A couple of 'yessirs' when you know that 'not on your life' is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you've spent your life perfecting. Forgetting to make use of the information that negates his hastily formed but deliciously convenient theories. It doesn't take much but it takes about 98.5 per cent more than I've ever considered giving

Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)

A lie told often enough becomes truth.

The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.

Those who rule us have brilliantly applied the maxim that the best defense against truth is the unswerving repetition of lies.

power aims to produce subjects defined (and, correlatively, made visible and controlled) by particular desires.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Most people have their buttons," Eustace continued.