Subterfuge Quotes
14 quotes by 14 authors
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It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
— Grover Cleveland
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In Europe one needs to act ‘as if’ – as if what was wanted was little, in order to obtain much, as if States were…
— Giuliano Amato
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Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
— Mark Twain
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Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.
— Isaac Watts
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It is necessary to be able to withstand all this, to agree to any and every sacrifice, and evenif need beto resort to all sorts…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this…
— Hilaire Belloc
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The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.
— Calvin Coolidge
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Is the human condition not defined by an endless struggle to control the ego's subterfuges?
— Roméo Dallaire
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Nobody likes me,†he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,†Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter…
— Robin Wasserman
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But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There's an honesty to the wolf world that is liberating. There's no diplomacy, no decorum. You tell your enemy you hate him; you show your…
— Jodi Picoult
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nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge,…
— Charles Bukowski
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The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that…
— Barton Gellman
Who Wrote These Subterfuge Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 14 Subterfuge Quotes as follows: