Quotes About Subterfuge

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.

Even when I go to the gym I sit in the steam room for an hour, come back really red-faced and pretend I've been for a run, so there's no need to worry.

No standard exists for the peculiarity and ridiculousness of things, not even one that is unspeakable or unknowable, words which are merely a front or a subterfuge. These qualities – the peculiar and the ridiculous – are immanent and absolute in all existence and would be in any conceivable existent order . . .

This sort of absurd subterfuge, and this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

She had decided that the women wouldn't be wearing overly conservative, modest clothes. If a woman was up to no good, she would want to look like the majority.

she sprayed the inside of the car with the fire extinguisher and tossed it on the floor in the back seat, left the keys in the ignition, and walked away. "What was that for?" asked Pete. "The spray is just carbon dioxide. It'll be gone in a little while, but so will the fingerprints. If somebody traces the plates, they'll have a problem because the car's not registered in Colorado. It might buy us some time to make them trace it in other states.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Nonsense, said Graff. Ender always has plans within plans.

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

Oh, it'll definitely fool the Germans, Cess said. There's no clearer proof that there's an army in the area than beer bottles and used condoms.

The cardinal principle was: 'A double agent should, as far as possible, actually live the life and go through the motions of a genuine agent.

Women have always been spies.

Deception also turned out to be a vital strategic quality. It involved deliberately sending untrue signals with a view to changing another's behavior.

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there was nothing unnatural or surprising in efforts to get the better of stronger opponents by catching them by surprise or tricking them in some way.

Truly that aspect of cunning is illustrious and far removed from all reproach, whose deeds are called by the Greek expression strategemata, because they can scarcely be suitably expressed by a (single Latin) term.

If you are trying to fool a farsighted or dimwitted person, a veiled facial disguise might be enough.

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

What you did when you wanted to get away with something was not to plan, but to look for an opportunity

Always work the ref's blind side.

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

They were appalled by his idea of making a spy service out of a scattershot collection of Wall Street brokers, Ivy League eggheads, soldiers of fortune, ad men, news men, stunt men, second-story men, and con men.