Commanders Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

Though fraud in all other actions be odious, yet in matters of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes his enemies…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

— Bible

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

— Jane Austen

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

— William C. Brown

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

— Jane Austen

“One who is skillful at keeping the enemy on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to which the enemy will act. He sacrifices something,…

— Sun Tzu

“There is nothing more deceitful...than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes and indirect boast.”

— Jane Austen

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises.

— Maria Montessori

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose…

— Alexander Cockburn

“The good leader in war is not warlike The good fighter is not impetuous; The best conqueror of the enemy is he who never…

— Karen Armstrong

Deceit is the false road to happiness; and all the joys we travel through to vice, like fairy banquets, vanish when we touch them.

— Aaron Hill

Self-deceit is a sure defeat.

— Tasneem Hameed