Quotes About Ploy

Washington has been using tax extenders to extort donations for more than thirty years. Lobbyists have likened the tax extenders ploy to Lucy pulling the football away from poor Charlie Brown in the last second.

Let me get this straight." Gabel paced in a small circle. "Never Dead Ned may actually be a secret wizard because secret wizards don't go around showing off their power in public, except to convince people that they aren't really secret wizards, which very few people suspect even exist in the first place." "It's a very clever ploy," said Frank. "Ingenious," agreed Regina.

If you must be without one, be without the strategy.

I know a trick worth two of that.

So someone either Trojan Horsed or Avon Ladied

Pretending to misremember a name was such a reliable way to annoy.

The essence of deception is distraction.

I'm sure this is a diversionary ploy. But that doesn't mean it isn't real." -Abe Sapien

That's all it takes in life to win a woman over - a good gimmick.

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

It was a typical Soviet ploy. People were forever quoting Lenin, much of the time with a great deal of creativity, knowing that even scholars had a difficult time identifying quotations from the mass of Lenin's writing and speeches. Rostnikov

Deception is the art of war.

It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it.

You're afraid of smart women, aren't you?' She had used this ploy before, having heard via the female bush telegraph that it was unanswerable. She was right though. I was leery of them. Art and Mike said taking an intellectual woman into your home was like taking in a baby raccoon. They were both amusing for a while but soon became randomly vicious and learned how to open the refrigerator.

The last defense of the charlatan is always that something is 'strategic.

It was a good trick, only it didn't work. In