Quotes About Subterfuge

Misdirection. False signals. Spreading confusion. This is the Tao of deception.

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

Ralph had never seen his way clearly in that dim underworld of affairs where men of the Moffatt and Driscoll type moved like shadowy destructive monsters beneath the darting small fry of the surface.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

George W. Bush spoke to the camera, his face so decisively earnest that it was clear he was lying, his button eyes lit up with amateurish subterfuge. Only truly great men can be adept at shameless lying, Joshua thought. This dude was straining to the point of snapping.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord? Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

Hell is a conspiracy, and the first requirement of a conspiracy is that it remain underground.

The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.

Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief.

If somebody wants to be your enemy, there's only one thing you can do. You give them exactly what they want. It confuses them and makes them wonder what you're up to.

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

se hacía la dormida.

So someone either Trojan Horsed or Avon Ladied

Yo tengo un amigo que dice que no hay vida como la clandestinidad. Ni tan mala ni, sobre todo, tan buena.

No hay vida como la clandestinidad. Ni tan buena ni, sobre todo, tan mala.

Tactics are manipulative.

If you are trying to mislead your enemies, it is often better to concoct something ambiguous and hard to read, as opposed to an outright deception—that deception can be uncovered and enemies can turn their discovery to their advantage, especially if you think they are still fooled and act under that belief.

mail drop as the return address.

Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.

And the motive for all this subterfuge? Simple. Something his Nano had told him a long time ago. "People buy comfort," she had said, slitting a pig's throat with a corn sickle. "If you make them comfortable, then they will buy whatever you are selling." The combination of wisdom and arterial blood spray was irresistible and Hillman never forgot his grandmother's lesson.