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Quotes About Manipulative

and conniving where he was clever.
~ John Connolly
A quack changes own sound track only to bring back the people behind oneself only.
~ Anuj Somany
Game-player with the people's emotions is propagated for few bucks only as game-changer.
~ Anuj Somany
Toxic person talks often sweet merely to meet own selfish desire to attract people around oneself as a trap to sap all their positive energy out of them to make oneself happy or to enjoy.
~ Anuj Somany
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
~ Pietro Aretino
Tonight I have a little surprise for you," he says. He laughs; it's more like a snigger. I notice that everything this evening is little. He wishes to diminish things, myself included.
~ Margaret Atwood
That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.
~ Margaret Mitchell
Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself.
~ John Flanagan
He delighted in Sebastien's jealousy and anger, and always had.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sneaky manipulative bundle of code.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it.
~ Austin O'Malley
You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love.
~ Andrea Dworkin
I don't want to throw mud at anyone - I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist - but Gandhi was pretty manipulative, you know.
~ Robert Greene
The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.
~ Bjork
What you have to understand about the Guccis," Jenny told a journalist in 1994, "is that they are all completely mad, incredibly manipulative, and not very clever. They have to be in control, but as soon as they get what they want, they crush it! They are destroyers, it's as simple as that!
~ Sara Gay Forden
So she shut her eyes and channeled her sister. A beautiful bitch. A manipulative queen bee. The girl who'd ruined her life.
~ Sara Shepard
Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.
~ Tim Robbins
I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.
~ Jim Bolger
Trujillo podía hacer que el agua se volviera vino y los panes se multiplicaran, si le daba en los cojones
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Con gli anni, mi hai fatto diventare come te. Tutto serve per ottenere quello che uno vuole. Sono parole tue, nina mala. E io, lo sai fin troppo bene, l'unica cosa che voglio a questo mondo sei tu. (...) No, tu non sei capace di cose così. disse, a mezza voce, come lamentando quella carenza della mia personalità.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
you'd never never never again work for that manipulative, Machiavellian psychopath. And he'd get you back on the team, often with a gesture as simple and inexpensive as a baseball cap or a T-shirt. The timing was what did it, that he knew. He knew just when to apply that well-timed pat on the back, the strangled and difficult-for-him 'Thank you for your good work' appreciation of your labors.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Thou seek'st to part us, wrapping in soft words Hard thoughts.
~ Sophocles
But all was false and hollow; through his tongueDropp'd manna, and could make the worse appearThe better reason.
~ John Milton
Bing: You're a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn't go your way, anything that you can't have you destroy.
~ John O'Hara