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Quotes About Scheming

The widow employed her woman's malice to devise a system of covert persecution.
~ Honore de Balzac
We've piled his plate high with shit," Fox conceded. "And not even tied a bib around his neck," Kaye added. "Is your afternoon grilling to be courtesy of a woman called Stoddart?
~ Ian Rankin
Any time I'm not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it's because I'm up to something.
~ Jim Butcher
A real page turner...find out what happens to Jessie Martin's career, baby and relationships. How does Terrence Butterfield manipulate the system and Jessie.
~ Unknown
Truda Hangnail was smiling, and it was not the sort of smile designed to make anyone feel happy.
~ Unknown
Have you ever wondered, Anne, in your untiring dance of seduction, whether you might not be dancing to Henry's tune instead of your own? I know how clever you are. How enticing. People whisper the word witch whenever you smile at him. But which of you is pale and hollow-eyed from too many scheming, sleepless nights? Which of you is growing more feverish day by day? Which of you is truly bewitched, Anne?
~ Philippa Gregory
I am going to be Queen of England,' I protest. 'You make it sound like a battle to the death.' 'It is a battle to the death,' she says simply. 'That is what it means to be Queen of England. You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.
~ Philippa Gregory
You are not Melusina, rising from a fountain to easy happiness. You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.
~ Philippa Gregory
You will not be a beautiful woman at court with nothing to do but make magic. The road you have chosen will mean that you have to spend your life scheming and fighting. Our task, as your family, is to make sure you win.
~ Philippa Gregory
Any ninny with an honest heart, a scheming family, and an open purse can do that.
~ Philippa Gregory
There's only one way to find out," said Eddie, smiling slightly. Beth turned to her sister. "Spy on them?" "Exactly." Caroline began to feel all warm inside again, though not, she knew, with the Christmas spirit. Eddie and Beth were back in her corner again, making plans, and that was right where she wanted them to be.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Une femme, si peu qu'elle soit pourvue de malice, n'a pas besoin qu'on lui en revende; elle a le magasin chez elle, avec tous les assaisonnements de malignes pratiques.
~ Plautus
Name after mysterious name would fall from those old lips—the Shriah of the Thousand Temples, the malevolent heathens of Kian, the all-conquering Scylvendi, the scheming sorcerers of the Scarlet Spires, and so on
~ R. Scott Bakker
All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be.
~ Dennis Covington
Nice clothes are all very well, but if gossip and scheming and worry and silly parties and tiny rules of etiquette go with them Ã¢â'¬Â¦ no. I'd as soon live in my shift and say what I like.
~ Diana Gabaldon
She could not know that he was a master manipulator. She could not know that he had plans for her. And she could not know that as the Duke of Blackheath strode out into the Grand Hall and called for his hat, his gloves, and his horse, his eyes were gleaming with cunning delight.
~ Unknown
Villains are fun to play.
~ Edi Gathegi
Backstabbers will almost always seek to gain your trust, and this usually involves some form or flattery on their part.
~ Unknown
Backstabbers are only powerful when your back is turned.
~ Unknown
Insecurity is the reason why Backstabbers are born.
~ Unknown
He prepares evil for himself who plots mischief for others.
~ Latin proverb
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
~ Oscar Wilde
Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.
~ Shefali Zariwala
Ample women do not plan such things. They lack the guile for conspiracies of the body.
~ Don DeLillo