Quotes About Subterfuge

Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man.

During the Cold War, there was a theory. That one agent, in the right place, at the right time...with the right skills...could be more effective than an army.

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense.

She was certainly now obsessing him! Beyond bearing or belief. His whole being was overwhelmed by her... by her mentality, really. For of course the physical resemblance of the lance-corporal was mere subterfuge. Lance-corporals do not resemble young ladies.

Set a thief to catch a thief

What does guile mean?" "Deceit, duplicity, dishonesty

Feints within feints within feints.

Yueh ventured a thin smile, thinking: I believe it has worked. Now, she'll think anything unusual in my manner is due to embarrassment. She'll not look for deeper reasons when she believes she already knows the answer.

Piter de Vried

Observe the plans within plans within plans

This alleged Providence was the great subterfuge of maternal thoughtlessness.

Que pour être efficace, il faut cacher ses intentions.

T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.

The first involved the sale of ninety F-86 aircraft to Pakistan, once again raised from surplus German stock. At the time Pakistan was a no-sale zone, embargoed by NATO because of its simmering conflict with India. The required subterfuge was undertaken with the help of the Shah of Iran, who allowed the planes to be delivered to Tehran by Luftwaffe officers and then flown to Pakistan by Iranian pilots dressed up as Pakistani officers.

When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

You seem artful at those pretences, Which flatter common folk and princes.

Is there any shame to sleeping? There are news reports on all the time about how sleep deprived we are and how dangerous it is with drivers falling asleep at the wheel and machine operators pushing the wrong buttons. I'm actually performing a public service by sleeping. Maybe I'm worried that they'll think I'm lazy. At three o'clock in the morning, however, I figured subterfuge was pointless.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways,Are the children of Men.

One thing was clear: his attempt at sincerity and clarity had been a total failure. The world was accustomed to subterfuge and verbal pyrotechnics, and when it didn't get the expected commodity, it grew suspicious. Sincerity had no market value.

Rufe nodded. "Oh, sure, that's CIA style. Throw up a smoke screen—bumfoozle the opposition.

That meant she had to find a way to slip out of the townhouse again without being caught in her

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

I am apt to think she was too artful to rail at me, but rather pretended to have a kindness for me, and like Iago gave, as she saw occasion, wounds in the dark.

The best way to know and destroy an enemy is to pretend to become his friend.