Quotes About Scheming

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Nonsense, said Graff. Ender always has plans within plans.

If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. 

Every fool aspired to be a knave.

Truly that aspect of cunning is illustrious and far removed from all reproach, whose deeds are called by the Greek expression strategemata, because they can scarcely be suitably expressed by a (single Latin) term.

These brats know a lot of words,' Shirley said, in her ridiculously fake high voice. 'They're book addicts. But we can still create an accident and win the fortune!

Mcguffin," Sunny said, which meant "Your scheming means nothing in this place.

Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.

Count Olaf, like any good businessman, has committed a wide variety of crimes.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Every thing he did was right. Every thing he said was clever. If their evenings at the park included cards, he cheated himself and all the rest of the party to get her a good hand.

but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

Edmund only took Fanny because Mary shocked him, and that Fanny might very likely have taken Crawford if he had been a little more assiduous; yet the matchless rehearsal-scenes and the characters of Mrs. Norris and others have secured, I believe, a considerable party for it. Sense and Sensibility has perhaps the

a 'dodgy politician' and a 'cynical manipulator'. 'He's clever enough to deceive people without them knowing it

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment.

She's a sort of human vampire-bat

Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth.

Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer.

You're tired. Sleep well tonight and tomorrow we'll see how far this reef runs - then we'll start some scheming.

As the strife-ridden year of 1932 approached its end, Berlin was full of cabals, and of cabals within cabals.

It's hard to find a woman without tactics. That'll be why I made one up.

I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.

Prince Vasili took the first opportunity to gain his confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him,