George III Quotes

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

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.

He [Jack Kemp] is dumber than he looks and even more two faced than I depict him!

Maniacal self-promoter …. Makes Machiavelli look like a simple, straightforward kinda guy.

He [Henry Clay] is a bad man, an impostor, a creator of wicked schemes.

Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.

I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.

We have come to see him as not vital but violent, not clever but devious, not shrewd but cynical.

Set of Vipers

… a man steeped in falsehood … who had recourse to the lie whenever it suits his convenience …. He would sell his grandmother for any advantage.

… a little intriguer—plausible, but not trustworthy.

Talleyrand is a silk stocking filled with mud.

No human beings, black, yellow, or white could be quite as untruthful, as insincere, as arrogant—in short, as untrustworthy in every way—as the Russians.

... a bird of questionable moral character.

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!

I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.'

Meese was a sleaze.

… J. Edgar Hoover, whom you should trust as much as you would a rattlesnake with a silencer on its rattle.

Such is human nature, in the gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition, and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

... immoral, evil and a demagogue.

As to [Aaron] Burr, there is nothing in his favour … he is bankrupt beyond redemption except by the plunder of his country. His public principles have no other spring or aim than his own aggrandizement…. He is truly the Cataline of America.

Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says the worst, most politically incorrect things, even for the time the play is set in - and yet audiences adore that character.

Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.