Quotes About Scheming

Whatever else one may say about guilt, it certainly lends one diabolical powers of invention;

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

the jury that conniving her way into wills handwritten by her old and vulnerable bosses was a devious pattern.

He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chickenshit, slimy little bastard with a bright future in politics.

Right now Verna is blaming everyone. She's broken, she's terrified, and she's not rational. And, I'm not sure she's getting good advice. I got the impression these guys are sitting around the table, her table, scheming ways to sue anyone who's remotely connected to Hugo's death.

Oh yeah. A lot of fun. Staring across the table at five lawyers, all scheming to pounce on every word, every syllable, salivating as they dream of getting more of your money. Why can't your lawyer get the case settled? It should've been over months ago.

Meanwhile, Darnley was furiously plotting against his wife.

Nobody blamed the credulity and avarice of the people—the degrading lust of gain…or the infatuation which had made the multitude run their heads with such frantic eagerness into the net held out for them by scheming projectors.

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

Typically, we use the term "playing politics" only to describe our colleagues' behavior—never our own. They are sucking up, scheming, and manipulating, but we are building relationships, developing strategies, and opening communication channels.

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.

Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.

antisocial ones—chronic lying, a lack of empathy, and a pattern of placing a power agenda ahead of the good of the people.

what more scoundrelly trick could you have played on us?

I perfected my craft, playing the quarterlords and merchants against one another as if I was a musician and they were crude drums rumbling beneath my hands, making one boast to another that I had never pulled anything over on him, making them all feel so very smart, even as I relieved them of items I could put to better use elsewhere.

It had been a clever deception from the very beginning.

Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold.

Son un saco de maldades y un costal de malicias.

There was a plot against him.

evil people stick together.

Women are sneaky.

She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.

The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,