You see', said Ukridge, ' I dislike subterfuge'.

“Alf Todd," said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, "has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark…

— Wodehouse

There were various aspects of Sun Tzu's approach that appealed to Ho Chi Minh: a) to learn to understand both the enemy and yourself,…

— William J. Duiker

Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some sort of…

— Virginia Woolf

“why do I want to appear to be drinking more than I am?' 'Make it a habit. Men in their cups are fools, more…

— Raymond E. Feist

“Personal life, expression, knowledge, and history advance obliquely, and not directly, toward ends or toward concepts. That which is sought too deliberately is not…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Agents were trained liars. They were taught how to manipulate people in order to get what they wanted. Subterfuge was like second nature to…

— Santino Hassell

“I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment and imprison the spectator in it. The theatre…

— Iris Murdoch

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults…

— Wallace Shawn

Our contemporary brand of socialism has one fatal flaw. It's too expensive. When you try to shower benefits on so many recipients, you eventually…

— James Cook

Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison…

— Mark Twain

Whereas, according to the declaration of that true man of the world Talleyrand, the use of language is to conceal the thoughts; this is…

— Michael Faraday

How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?

— Roméo Dallaire

“It’s also been my experience that the people you would least expect of guile and subterfuge are the most adept at hiding their true…

— Amanda Stevens