Quotes About Subterfuge

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.

Cunning people find other people to drown for them.

A man, I'd sometimes thought, who would apologize for the inconvenience as he broke your neck.

If you think the person you're following has spotted you, turn and have a nice chat with a stranger on the street. The stranger may think you're a lunatic, but the person you're tailing will think you're harmless.

The idea of a pure race is not even a legitimate abstraction," Dobzhansky wrote. "It is a subterfuge to cloak one's ignorance.

Stop playing the part of the glib martyr. You're just trying to make cyanide out of 7-Up.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.

The Marquis de Carabas always had a plan, and he always had a fallback plan; and beneath these plans he always had a real plan, one that he would not even let himself know about, for when the original plan and the fallback plan had both gone south.

Mantende sempre os vossos inimigos confusos. Se nunca estiverem seguros de quem sois ou do que quereis, não podem saber o que é provável fazerdes em seguida. Por vezes a melhor maneira de os confundir é fazer coisas que não têm nenhum fito, ou até que parecem jogar contra vós.

Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

The whole secret lies in confusing the enemy, so that he cannot fathom our real intent.

mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy

Frank told me once--and I don't know whether he's right or not, and I didn't tell Sam this either--that all the best undercovers have a dark thread woven into them, somewhere.

Bulshytt: (1) In Fluccish of the late Praxic Age and early Reconstitution, a derogatory term for false speech in general, esp. knowing and deliberate falsehood or obfuscation. (2) In Orth, a more technical and clinical term denoting speech (typically but not necessarily commercial or political) that employs euphemism, convenient vagueness, numbing repetition, and other such rhetorical subterfuges to create the impression that something has been said.

Russia's intelligence network did its utmost to damage his rival's reputation

O maior remédio utilizado contra os desígnios do inimigo é fazeres voluntariamente aquilo que ele planeja que tu faças à força, porque fazendo-o de forma voluntária, tu o fazes com ordem e para vantagem tua e desvantagem dele; se o fizesses à força, seria então a tua ruína.

She eluded detection and relieved the rebels of one of their hyperspace-capable vessels.

The Painting is not shit,' said Lucien. 'I know,' said Henri. 'That was just part of the subterfuge. I am of royal lineage; subterfuge is one of the many talents we carry in our blood, along with guile and hemophilia.

Tits are flushing, ma'am," said I. Well they were! If she was going to run around in the altogether, she needed to get control over her bubbly bits or she'd never master proper royal subterfuge and guile. "Bit of a tell, love, the pinkening of the knockers, on someone as fair as thou.

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