Quotes About Subterfuge

Sometimes, I think, you can look at a person and know they are full of words. Maybe the words are withheld due to pain or privacy, or maybe subterfuge.

whole shitload of very dangerous poisons and powerful hallucinogens are hidden behind a lot of mumbo jumbo.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

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

Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in plain view, and, usually, his tongue was doing most

Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

I would have either disposed of the body so it was never found, or made it look like an accident." Indah frowned, and Aylen's brow creased, and they exchanged a look. Eyeing me, Indah said, "How would you dispose of a body so it wouldn't be found?" I'm not the public library feed, Senior Officer, go do your own research. I said, "If I told you, then you might find all the bodies I've already disposed of.

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

In a society that valued politeness over truth, where malice and subterfuge were commonplace, even accepted, Lily's frankness was labeled an eccentricity of her "condition.

I perfected my craft, playing the quarterlords and merchants against one another as if I was a musician and they were crude drums rumbling beneath my hands, making one boast to another that I had never pulled anything over on him, making them all feel so very smart, even as I relieved them of items I could put to better use elsewhere.

Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard, you pounce!

Con el tiempo, comprendí que aquel era un planeta de cosas envueltas dentro de cosas: comida dentro de envoltorios, cuerpos dentro de ropas, odio dentro de sonrisas. Todo se escondía.

Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force

Lies emerges when control is unreachable

the case against collusion with the Russians and the case for it. It was a case, or the lack of one, not of masterminds and subterfuge, but of senseless and benighted people so guileless and unconcerned that they enthusiastically colluded in plain sight.

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.

Rothstein worked with Park Avenue men as beards in the club-house, and with Broadway characters, such as Morris the Boob on The Lawn, and he probably bet away from the track, too.

Diplomacy: lying in state.

It's worse than treachery. He's using force. Is that worse than guile?

So he went down through the house, its silence alive with clocks, suggestions of subterfuge, the blatant echoes of downright lies, together with hints of the exasperating, unknowable truth.

Steel, speed, and stealth for a hit. Never spells. And sure as Hells never fire.