Quotes About Conniving

#1. 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.

Melina Marchetta

#2. 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.

Rich Hall

#3. Time, she felt, made quite enough claims on us, without our conniving in its relentless tyranny.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. Devil, you are fired
You could never ever have been required
For all the fiascos you inspire
I pour on you the Lord's unquenchable fire
Now get thee behind me, devil
You scheming sneaky crafty cunning conniving embodiment of evil

Pedro Okoro

#5. The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.

Leslie Knope

#6. What did the child-woman have to say except that she was happy to be living with Hubert--a big, pompous, grasping, scheming, conniving stud who used her at his will and shaped her affections and her tastes and in general raped her spirit.

M.F.K. Fisher

#7. The world needed gentle men to rule if the people were to live in peace, not the warmongers and conniving men she so often witnessed wearing the crimson of the Imperial Council.

A.H. Septimius

#8. When the government is quite unobtrusive, people are indeed pure. When the government is quite prying, people are indeed conniving.

Laozi

#9. I think like a lot of people, you look back on your life and say, 'Gee, why didn't I apply myself?' If I would have spent as much time studying as I did conniving, trying to do as little as possible, I probably would have got the A's.

Tony Danza

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

Strom Thurmond

#11. That's something you'll learn when you grow up. People by nature are unjust, unfair, and conniving.

Marie Lu

#12. I know because I was also broken as a child and forced to become a wicked conniving selfish manipulating monster in order to protect the fragile love-hungry girl who would have been destroyed by the life I had to lead.

Orson Scott Card

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

Annette Bening

#14. I thought she was a conniving, lying, man-stealing bitch, and I hoped she would fall in a volcano and die a horrible lava death.7 But

E. Lockhart

#15. We were just meant to be and fate in all her conniving, wicked glory, wouldn't have had this union any other way.

Sarah Michelle Lynch

#16. 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.

Betty Furness

#17. I lay so still in the gloom I could hear the house breathe, and the boards of the floors whispered, conniving a way to keep me here forever.

V.C. Andrews

#18. The world could be a conniving harlot, as evil as a demon, but love would defeat her, every single time. Love never failed.

Gena Showalter

#19. No old lady would be that conniving if she didn't have a little spunk left in her.

Susan Ornbratt

#20. You are a conniving, deceitful hussy. I stand in awe."
"You're sitting."
"I sit in awe.

Laini Taylor

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

Bess Myerson

#22. God knows us in all our conniving, self-centered, and jealousy-laden splendor and loves us anyway.

Tullian Tchividjian

#23. 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.

Kelley Armstrong

#24. 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.

Michael Moore

#25. Conniving at your friends' vices, passing them over, being blind to them and deceived by them, even loving and admiring your friends' egregious faults as if they were virtues -- does not this seem pretty close to folly?

Erasmus

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

Annie E. Clark

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

Judith McNaught

#28. The Shubert grandparents. No comfort there. He in uniform, she in a ball gown, displaying absurd self-satisfaction. They had got what they wanted, Sophia supposed, and had only contempt for those not so conniving or so lucky.

Alice Munro

#29. If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.

Kevin Spacey

#30. From this perspective, we were all divine Shakespeares, creating and playing the roles of muscled heroes and conniving villains, pious saints and debauched sinners, corrupt CEOs and disinterested temp workers.

Jonathan Talat Phillips

#31. 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.

John Dufresne

#32. Fear is not respect. It is but a conniving, little weasel next to that mighty lion. They are a far, far cry from the same animal.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. What if there existed a dark kingdom forged on a web of evil spells, with a conniving king plotting to infiltrate the dreams of children all over the world?

Bernice Fischer

#34. Never scheme with a conniving dragon!

Becca Mann

#35. I believe that there is another man inside of every man, a stranger, a Conniving Man.

Stephen King

#36. He thinks I'm like him, Mazer realized. That's what we do as humans; it's how we read minds. We assume that other people think like we do. So if we're nasty and suspicious and conniving we assume that everyone is as nasty and suspicious and conniving as we are.

Orson Scott Card

#37. I survive at the edge of friends circles.

Holly Black