Ruse Quotes
13 quotes by 13 authors
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Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.
— Albert Einstein
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In a physical contest on the field of battle it is allowable to use tactics and strategy, to retreat as well as advance, to have…
— Terence MacSwiney
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The men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to…
— Toni Morrison
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We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers…
— Pachomius the Great
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It is a ruse of the devil, by which he deceives good people, to induce them to do more than they are able, so that…
— Vincent de Paul
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Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
— Robert Genn
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The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.
— Michael Moore
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We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather…
— Heidi Julavits
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Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not…
— Barbara Mertz
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to…
— Ned Vizzini
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular…
— Anne Carson
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Someone so mean, ruse and distasteful, I dont know why they like you. There is something wrong with their eyes.
— Kyu Won
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Did you have trouble at the airport this week? I had to throw away all my make-up. They said it's because of this terrorist plot…
— Jimmy Kimmel
Who Wrote These Ruse Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 13 Ruse Quotes as follows: