Quotes About Strategy

the game of kings and princes, of queens and crowns, but to play it I must be pitiless.

I wouldn't play the game if I couldn't win.

If he could not get the High King's attention for something good, then perhaps he could get it for something really, really bad.

I am no swordsman, but moreover, I don't like giving my enemies what they want. Madoc has come for a duel, and if for no other reason than that, he should not have one.

when they are gone, it will be use staring across a chessboard at each other. And when I best you, I will make sure I do it as thoroughly as I would any opponent who has shown themselves to be my equal.

Were you a little less clever, perhaps you'd have had more success.

Fighting was chess, anticipating the move of one's opponent and countering it before one got hit.

I poisoned you. Don't worry. It was a small dose. You'll live." "The cups of wine," he says. "But how did you know which one I would choose?" "I didn't," I tell him, thinking that he'll be at least a little pleased by the answer, despite himself. It is the kind of strategy he likes best. "I poisoned them both.

What is sparring but a game of strategy,played at speed?

One of the hardest things to do as a spy, a strategist, or even just as a person, is wait.

I feel helpless, as though he's herding me around a chessboard to checkmate.

Because I don't like being the fool who'd been tricked. I like games, but I hate to lose.

Defending yourself is not the same as offending your enemy. Watch what you say.

The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council.

Yeah, after each of my downhill putts.

Madame de Nucingen was already there, dressed with the deliberate aim of appealing to all eyes, knowing that thereby she would seem even more attractive to Eugène.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

chooses with the men who seem to her agreeable, without being entered on the tablets of gossip. Certain coquettish women are capable of following a plan of this kind for seven years in order to gratify their fancies

Give a Paris woman at bay four-and-twenty hours, and she will overthrow a ministry.

When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.

The best way is to be strong enough to make your enemy think twice about attacking you, yet not so aggressive that he feels threatened. Keep your sword sheathed as long as you can, but once it is unsheathed, use it without hesitation.

Once you've hit a ball there's no point watching to see where it's going. You can't change its flight path now. You have to think about your next move. Not what you should have done. What you do now.

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective.

Now Logan competed against Troy by not competing, which was fucking genius. You couldn't win if only one of you was playing.