Quotes about Manipulation

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Priests and conjurors are of the same trade .

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

Satan hath power to assume a pleasing form. Them big blue eyes. Knew more ways to turn a man's head than the devil's grandmother. I dont know where they learn it at. Hell, she wasnt but seventeen.

The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them.