Bluffing Quotes

It is often necessary to trick people into confessing.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.

The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy if possible.

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

When it comes to snowing people, one effective technique is to get a whole bunch of verifiable facts right and then add one or two that are untrue.

I don’t bluff, but I do act with realism.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

Look, I never enjoy risking my tournament life with a marginal hand, but if you want to be a poker champion, that's exactly what needs to be done. Just don't do it too often!

If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.

I'm a short, fairly plain person who's bluffing his case and getting away with it.

I like to show my cards and see people's reactions.

Menace not intended is an engine which Great Britain could never condescend to employ.

Negotiating deals among members of Congress is an exercise in wearing masks, scaring up votes, and, oftentimes, bluffing.

If you have the ability to convince somebody of something that you don't necessarily think is the case, it's a valuable asset. Not that I'm, like, a pathological liar, but we spend most of the day not fully being honest, you know?

You cannot play naive if you're not.

In the classic 70s episodes, Columbo is rarely seen on his own. We typically do not see Columbo 'for himself,' only for the criminal, leaving the possibility that the entire Columbo persona - his shambling manner, his absent mindedness, even his references to his wife - may all be a performance designed to disarm the murderer.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Good liars are skilled at reading others well, putting them at ease, managing their own emotions, and intuitively sensing how others perceive them.

I can bluff with the best of them.

He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

In general, I think it's an advantage politically to keep people guessing.

When a man tells me he's going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.

Every poker player is smarter than me.