Quotes About Ruse

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity.

Now if you tell me there were six other naked women and three attendants hanging around who saw you shove her into the locker,i'll have to kill you. There was nobody else there.We're not idiots.she grimaced. I know you think we are, but we're not stupid enough to have done it in front of witnesses. Actually, we timed it that way so she'd be stuck in there longer. she smiled weakly. it seemed like a good idea at the time.

The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.

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

Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

there was nothing unnatural or surprising in efforts to get the better of stronger opponents by catching them by surprise or tricking them in some way.

unwritten law for the truth seeker is patience; a master may purposely make a test of one's eagerness to meet him. This psychological ruse is freely employed in the West by doctors and dentists!

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

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Jacob the trickster gets his due. After pulling off the ruse, he has to run for his life and spends 20 years in exile with his uncle. Uncle Laban then gives Jacob a dose of his own medicine by planting an unwanted sister in his wedding bed and by repeatedly changing his wages as head shepherd.

out everything you could've told us. And if our little ruse

In short, climate change is the ruse to get the public to go for full socialism.

envious laymen had come up with the ruse of claiming their households were monasteries

My Lord Jupiter knows how to sugarcoat the pill.

And so let us trot out the rascal!