Quotes About Subterfuge

The Bureau had conducted uncounted break-ins and black-bag jobs on Hoover's say-so. The

Any life-form advanced enough to travel light-years through interstellar space would have nothing to learn by probing the rectums of farmers in Kansas. Nor would these life-forms need to morph into reptiles and infiltrate governments in order to take over earth. Any life-form with the technology to travel to earth would require no subterfuge or subtlety to dominate us instantaneously.

Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice...

it involved the idea that people who were genuinely dangerous might not need to exhibit the fact at all, and that the ability to conceal a threat made them even more dangerous.

It's hard to find a woman without tactics. That'll be why I made one up.

James Bond had very little to do with the navy at all: it was a convenient front. Bond was secret service from the start ....

Remember that Backstabbers are sneaky,slick,seductive, and sabotaging.

It was loopholery at its very best.

The best way to weaken one's enemy was to get him to believe that you were on his side.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Everyone in the Hall knows what's really happening, but as long as it looks as if everything is in order, nobody will object.

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all.

your game is to attack on whichever flank you can best conceal your advance, or, still better, on both flanks simultaneously;

But over and beyond all that can be written on the subject—inventiveness is a personal matter, beyond all formulas—the true general must be able to take in, deceive, decoy, delude his adversary at every turn, as the particular occasion demands. In fact, there is no instrument of war more cunning than chicanery;

The disturbing thing about Cardan is how well he plays the fool to disguise his own cleverness.

I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

The job is not to get caught.

He thinks of Elienad, lying beneath tables, listening to the inflections of lies. Watching the hesitations, the gestures, the tensed muscles. Learning a language the king was unaware he even spoke.

His hand comes up with a cloth smelling of cloying sweetness. He presses it over my nose and mouth. I feel my limbs go loose, and a moment later, I feel nothing at all.

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is.

Secrecy and deception in war is often how one wins that war. And it is my preference that we win this fight.

At the front door I spit on the hinges to keep them from squealing and we eased it silently open.