Quotes About Schemers

The winners are the schemers and the ruthless who take what they want, not the suckers standing around hoping for an even break.

I opened my doors to any of the Undead who would wipe their boots before entering. It was like the old days in Venice, with Bianca's palazzo open to all ladies and gentlemen, indeed, to all artists, poets, dreamers and schemers who dared to present themselves, had come again.

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

A decade in advertising exposed me to plenty of schemers and backstabbers. But honestly, advertising is wonderful training for fiction. Writing novels is much easier if you've ever tried to write a billboard.

The will of the nation is one of those phrases most widely abused by schemers and tyrants of all ages.