Quotes About Scheming

They proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.

is there any body of citizens in the country who actually welcome and enjoy a General Election?..YES. Those citizens are schoolchildren...attending national schools. It may be very cynical, but on the appointed day those Lyceums of lower learning are turned into polling stations, the homes of innocence temporarily become part of the grim apparatus of politics and the scheming of sundry chancers.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

Melmotte is really little more than rumor and illusion; his sudden rise is due less to any deep scheming or villainy on his part than to society's apparent inability to enforce its own standards.

I'll be teaching you the nasty, furtive, polite ways to kill people

If she could make them both irritated with her, chances are they would commiserate with each other. So it had always worked when they were boys.

A few bad apples, Okay I grant u that ~ Bentz

Let's not get naughty. How about homicidal instead?

As he watched people scheme and grovel for Rockefeller's fortune, it was hard to preserve his faith in human nature.

Hamilton did not think Burr would be a harmless, lackadaisical president. "He is sanguine enough to hope everything, daring enough to attempt everything, wicked enough to scruple nothing," Hamilton told Gouverneur Morris. From his legal practice, Hamilton knew that Burr had exorbitant debts and might be susceptible to bribes from foreign governments. He briefed Federalists about the scandals involving Burr and the Holland Company and the gross trickery behind the Manhattan Company.

Most true is it in the Great Game, for it is by means of women that all plans come to ruin and we lie out in dawning with our throats cut.

So far, then, said Danglars, mentally, all has gone as I would have it. I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue. My only fear is the chance of Dantes being released. But, there, he is in the hands of Justice; and, added he with a smile, she will take her own. So saying, he leaped into a boat, desiring to be rowed on board the Pharaon, where M. Morrel had agreed to meet him.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction. The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires.

Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart.

the marquise had often said that there are means to get rid of people one dislikes, and they can easily be put an end to in a bowl of soup.

MACHINATION, n. The method employed by one's opponents in baffling one's open and honorable efforts to do the right thing.

Good treachery takes effort.

Dark times are the best for dark business,

They're in there? Morveer and his little echo?

It's awfully good of some people to have asked me to take the job, but I'd rather read about a grand escape than plan one. Besides, I'm terrible at keeping secrets and I hate to scheme against people. It seems rude. I don't deal with guilt well and I'm worried we might hurt some feelings in the process of defending ourselves. Also, I am juggling a couple of books. Being a full-time conspirator would take away from my reading time.

I soon discovered that all civility is but the mask of design.

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

What were you going to do with it?" McCain asked. "I just thought it might come in useful." "Were you planning to attack me?" "No. But that's a good idea.

What does guile mean?" "Deceit, duplicity, dishonesty