Quotes About Scheming

Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.

At the very least, our willingness to ban our emotional manipulation of others produces an extraordinary lightness and peace of mind. For what at first seems like surrender or inaction ends up restoring an almost forgotten sense of vitality and enthusiasm; All that scheming, it turns out, took up much more time and effort than we thought, energy which is now available for new and more satisfying interests.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

He shook his head, looked around carefully and then lowered his voice. "Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then—and this is the important bit—do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies." "Thanks

It was loopholery at its very best.

He could put her safely back in the category of "Despicable, Conniving NightWings I Hate.

The narrator refers to a character as an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being on earth.

Let's kill the big one with the red whiskers then, another suggested. He looks like he might be troublesome, and he's probably too stupid to know anything useful. I want that one, Barak whispered.

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

How shall I murder him, Iago?

You said,' Camille protested, 'that when you wanted to get on terms with Gabrielle you cultivated her mother. It's true, everybody saw you doing it, boasting in Italian and rolling your eyes and doing your tempestuous southerner impersonation.

I raise a plastic glass. "To family." "And Faerieland," says Taryn, raising hers. "And pizza," says Oak. "And stories," says Heather. "And new beginnings," says Vivi. Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. "And scheming great schemes." To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.

Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is.

What is it? For what do you scheme? Ethine's death would weigh on you and the stain of her blood would seep into your skin" "Do you know what they wish for when they give you the Unseelie crown?" Roiben's tone was soft, like he was telling a secret. Kaye could barely catch his words. "That you be made of ice. What makes you think it matters what I feel? What makes you think I feel anything at all?

To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.

I raise a plastic glass. 'To family.' 'And Faerieland,' says Taryn, raising hers. 'And pizza,' says Oak. 'And stories,' says Heather. 'And new beginnings,' says Vivi. Cardan smiles, his gaze on me. 'And scheming great schemes.' To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes. I can toast to that.

Someone tried to kill me. Again. Poison. Again. Someone else tried to recruit me into a scheme where we would kill my sister and Cardan, so I could rule in their place. When I told them no, they tried to kill me. With a knife, that time.' 'A poisoned knife?' He laughed. 'No, just a regular one. But it hurt.

You're scheming,' the Ghost says, noticing my gaze. ... 'I'm always scheming,' I return.

It's genius," he says, "but definitely evil genius.

To family and faerie land and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming new schemes, I could toast on that

It was about this, wasn't it? He knew. They all knew." I think of Nicasia sitting at Locke's dining table, seeming for a moment to take me into her confidence. He ruins things. That's what he likes. To ruin things

To family and Faerieland and pizza and stories and new beginnings and scheming great schemes.

Our mom, Rhea, was not happy about her husband's baby-eating habit, but she didn't know how to stop him. Finally, by the time my little brother Zeus was born, she came up with a plan. (Really, mom? Nothing occured to you until the sixth child?)