Quotes About Scheming

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

What cannot be won by force of arms can often be achieved through cunning, deceit, or by a concealed blade slipped into an enemy's back. —Nicolai

The ego is the ultimate conspirator.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Real life is about reacting quickly to the opportunity at hand, not the opportunity you envisioned. Not thinking and scheming for the future, but letting it happen.

Lord save us all from the machinations of an intelligent female.

lo lleva pintado en el rostro, la capacidad de estafa y la voluntad de dolo.

You only break out the good stuff when you want something. Usually something that includes blood, death, and/or mayhem.

Watching 'Profit' is like peering into a fishbowl and watching a piranha at work.

There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.

I'm a guy who's been around this sport on the outside looking in, seeing, watching, scheming, plotting and planning his next big move.

For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord? Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

we broke the complimentary cookie obtained in the lobby into small pieces and flung it over the fence of the Indonesian embassy, thinking that the scheming and warlike Indonesians were probably out at the time, and in the event that the Indonesians had not fed their local squirrels.

My nephew is a manipulative, scheming, unscrupulous son of a bitch. And those are his good qualities.

Intéressant, laissa tomber la mère. J'ai la forte impression que Philémon te sera utile dans l'avenir. Il est capable de tout, vois-tu. Il n'a pas de scrupules, aucune morale. Mon père avait un associé qui était toujours prêt à faire le sale travail : inventer des rumeurs, répandre des commérages venimeux, fomenter des différends. De tels hommes peuvent se révéler inestimables.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

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

Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.