Pierre Andre Rinfret Quotes

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

… a little intriguer—plausible, but not trustworthy.

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

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

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

… that insidious man

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 politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

I think all politicians lie.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.

There is hardly a single person in the House of Commons worth painting; though many of them would be better for a little whitewashing.

It is not wise to trust a man with a deceitful speech ... for he will definitely manipulate your sayings and give a different meaning to your saying and decisions, for he would not care to keep the truth intact

I saw him turn his charm on and off, like water from the tap at the kitchen sink. He said nothing of substance. He seemed to me essentially an actor.

Get thee glass eyes ;, And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the things thou dost not.

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Talleyrand is a silk stocking filled with mud.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are just putting us on [and acting stupid], or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Hypocrisy and rhetorical flimflam are standard in politics …

Politicians pretend not to be smart.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.