Best Conniving Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.”

Men Matter Government Common South Rings Domination Cunning Carolina South Carolina Common Knowledge Conniving

Author:Strom Thurmond

“If philosophy is still necessary, it is so only in the way it has been from time immemorial: as critique, as resistance to the expanding heteronomy, even if only as thought's powerless attempt to remain its own master and to convict of untruth, by their own criteria, both a fabricated mythology and a conniving, resigned acquiescence.”

Ifs Way Has Beens Stills Philosophy Masters Mythology Resistance Powerless Expanding Criteria Critique Untruth Resigned Convicts Acquiescence Conniving

Book:Essays on Music

Source: Essays on Music

“If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.”

Ifs Politician Conniving

Author:Kevin Spacey

“The consumer game is tougher than pro football and more conniving than chess. One side [industry] invents the rules and the other side [consumers] is left to guess what they are.”

Games Left Sides Football Industry Chess Consumers Pro Football Conniving

Author:Betty Furness

“These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control.”

Needs Country Whole Running Down And Bunch Our Country Replaced Conniving

Book:Dude, Where's My Country?

Source: Dude, Where's My Country?

“Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.”

People Kind Mean Jobs Strange Music Is Conniving

Author:Annie E. Clark

“I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.”

Rooms Deals Style Sitting Conniving

Author:Bess Myerson

“Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed.”

Source: Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd

“Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me in the worst possible way.”

Men Way Self Wonderful Worst Monsters Betrayed Self Absorbed Wonderful Man Conniving

Book:Bitten

Source: Bitten

“Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart”

Heart Black My Heart Flattery Hearted Scoundrels Treacherous Whitney Conniving

Author:Judith McNaught

“The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There’s nothing mysterious about his ways. They’re premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.”

Way Ideas Situation Impossible Mysterious Rubbish God Works In Mysterious Ways Mysterious Ways Impossible Situations Conniving

Book:Saving Francesca

Source: Saving Francesca

“The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.”

“I don't want a team that escapes from reality and escapes from the truth. I don't want people who are always escaping, who always have a story and are always conniving. An ostrich tries to escape from the truth. Isn't an ostrich the thing that puts its head in the sand? But guess what's sticking out when he does it? It's ass, that's what. I don't want a team like that......Because when you have a team like that and trouble comes, that team will not face the trouble.”

People Want Trying Doe Stories Reality Faces Trouble Team Truth Is Ass Sand Escaping Ostriches Sticking Out Conniving

Author:John Chaney

“When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.”

People Government Pure Taoism Conniving

Author:Laozi

“You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.”

Sex Balance Equal Guilt Affair Excitement Delicate Gamble Conniving

Book:Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel

Source: Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel

“Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.”

World America Evil Modern Worst Planets News Expensive Foxes Coats Rats Modern World Fox News Conniving

Author:Rich Hall

“Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.”

Life Seems Fate Jest Conniving

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell