Stephenie Meyer Quotes

The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now

If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next. Sometimes the best way to baffle them is to make moves that have no purpose, or even seem to work against you. Remember that, Sansa, when you come to play the game.” “What . . . what game?” “The only game. The game of thrones.” -(Littlefinger)

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.

Honestly, it’s so easy to get what you want from people if they think you’re a psycho.

I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend.

Sometimes I'm surprised when someone who has achieved success is incredibly Machiavellian in their manipulations. So, while I want to believe it's integrity, that might just show how naïve I am. I sometimes worry that I might not be shrewd enough to maneuver myself through the Hollywood system.

I don’t like being threatened, lied to, or manipulated. You’d do well to remember that. (Simone) Or what? You’re going to snivel at me? (Xypher)

It wasn't enough for Megadeth to do well; I wanted Metallica to fail.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure or the pain resulting from the pressure, you take something from him. ...A flirt doesn't do that. A flirt does a dance within the context of giving pleasure. Referring to this, referring to that. And suddenly, following the references, you find a little surprise. Nothing enormous. Nothing like 'Feed on me.' Nothing like that. Something small with a bow on it. It's a pleasure. A surprise, and a *gift*.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.

The Admiral's using us," he says to the kids around him. "Don't you see that?" Most of the kids just shrug, but Hayden's there, and he never misses an opportunity to add his peculiar wisdom to a situation. "I'd rather be used whole than in pieces," Hayden says.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

My success has depended wholly on putting things over on people, so I'm not sure that I'm that great a role model. I am, however, an expert on pretending to be an expert on pretending to be an expert.

Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler

As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you get tricked or you're kind of naive and you do something and people come steal your idea.