Ally Carter Quotes

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

With foxes we must play the fox.

In Washington, the ostensible story is rarely the real story.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

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

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

She turned to Frizz. "So you understand the problem? You can't let Tally know about Radical Honesty. There's no telling what she'll do if she finds out you could ruin her plans." Frizz's eyebrows rose. "So let me get this straight, Aya-chan. You want me, a person who can't lie, to lie about the fact that I can't lie?" "We need another plan," Hiro said.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

Machination is worth more than force.

Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I'm in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.

The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus narrow by nature and mean by art, are sometimes able to rise by the miscarriages of bravery and the openness of integrity, and, watching failures and snatching opportunities, obtain advantages which belong to higher characters.

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater.

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

I keep my enemies close/ I give 'em enough rope/ They put themselves in the air/ I just kick away the chair.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."

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

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

In King’s Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish

Perhaps the final secret of the Illuminati is that you don’t know you're a member until it’s too late to get out.