Quotes About Subterfuge

Cizvitler, dusmani sasirtmak icin en iyi yontemin gizli mezhepler yaratmak, tehlikeli heveslilerin bu mezheplere kosmalarini beklemek, sonra da tumunu tutuklamak oldugunu biliyorlardi. Baska bir deyisle, bir tuzaktan korkuyorsan, kendin kur tuzagi. Boylece tuzaga dusenler, senin denetimin altina girer.

So how do magistrates understand the word civilization? Where do we stand with it? Justice reduced to subterfuge and trickery! The law to machinations! Appalling!

Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze? A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.

In D&D, my first move, when you're dealing with an opposing army like that, would be to lure away a group of them-say five-and take their clothes." "Is this so they have to go back to the fortress naked and their embarrassment will negatively affect morale?" Said Jace. "Because that seems complicated.

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.

Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. "As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor.

As an ersatz opening batsman, Tavaré did not so much score runs as smuggle them out by stealth.

He wore piss-poor lime cologne. He sucked a hide-the-hooch lozenge.

I was in the underground until I left Germany.

As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.

Spying has always gone on since ancient times.

There are some people in the world, and the reason they're not in jail is because they've learned how to hide it.

He had a communications director named Hope Hicks. It's not like this was some kind of brilliant subterfuge.

I am a pickpocket, not a burglar.

Look we didn't break in, we conned our way in.' - Ruby 'Oh that makes it so much better.' - Hitch

the main function of a pseudo-promotion is to deceive people outside the hierarchy. When this is achieved, the maneuver is counted a success.

Horse was already in the heart of the Trojans. (Cheval était déjà dans le cœur des Troyens.)

Door VIII. A Hand at Cards IX. The Game Made X. The Substance of the Shadow

He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was in mortal sin, that his life had grown to be a tissue of subterfuge and falsehood.

The sleek warship took on her guns at a deserted Bahamian Cay and began her fearsome career as the Florida. She destroyed thirty-eight American merchant vessels before the Union navy captured her by a subterfuge in the harbor of Bahia, Brazil, in October 1864.

Deception is the art of war.