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Quotes About Conniving

More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
~ Natalie Dormer
There was nothing more vicious than a teenage girl. Maybe it was because boys were more capable of settling an argument with their fists, but girls at this age were much more conniving and torturous than anyone wanted to believe.
~ Karin Slaughter
The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There's nothing mysterious about his ways. They're premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.
~ Melina Marchetta
Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.
~ William Shakespeare
Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.
~ Eoin Colfer
Artemis smiled grimly. And for a moment, he felt like his old, conniving self, before Holly and his mother had introduced him to their pesky moral codes.
~ Eoin Colfer
These malicious takers immediately start conniving to exploit people for their own purposes—but back off when they encounter uncooperative and selfish people like themselves.
~ Robert I. Sutton
Time, she felt, made quite enough claims on us, without our conniving in its relentless tyranny.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
The Shubert grandparents. No comfort there. He in uniform, she in a ball gown, displaying absurd self-satisfaction. They had got what they wanted, Sophia supposed, and had only contempt for those not so conniving or so lucky.
~ Alice Munro
and conniving where he was clever.
~ John Connolly
You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.
~ John Dufresne
Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable form of chastisement.
~ Glen Cook
She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I have a clever and devious plan.
~ Steven Brust
What are you bitches plotting?
~ Miriam Toews
Chiltington was a snake. Worse. A garden slug. Maybe a leech. Something oily and slimy that left a greasy trail and liked to mooch off other people's ideas.
~ Chris Grabenstein
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
~ Strom Thurmond
You are a conniving, deceitful hussy. I stand in awe." "You're sitting." "I sit in awe.
~ Laini Taylor
One's missing." Kazan was livid. He searched the dead faces and saw no sign of Anastasia Romanov. "The conniving little witch is gone.
~ Glenn Meade
Human archetypes — the worried man, the chatterbox, the laughing old woman, the conniving youth.
~ Laura Fraser
Look we didn't break in, we conned our way in.' - Ruby 'Oh that makes it so much better.' - Hitch
~ Lauren Child
Others manipulate through pouting, giving others the silent treatment, being secretive or stubborn, conniving behind others' backs, or being intimidating. Whatever the means, their behavior indicates that they place no value on open, straightforward communication; their only concern is that they get their way.
~ Les Carter
Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.
~ Annie E. Clark
Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.
~ Shefali Zariwala