Devious Quotes

[The devil] al­ways sends er­rors into the world in pairs—pairs of op­posites. And he al­ways en­cour­ages us to spend a lot of time think­ing about which is the worse.... He re­lies on your ex­tra dis­like of the one er­ror to draw you grad­u­ally into the op­po­site one. But do not let us be fooled. We have to keep our eyes on the goal and go straight through be­tween both er­rors. We have no other con­cern than that with ei­ther of them.

I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villain. She's a not-nice person in a believable way; you can see her working in the world.

He [Henry Clay] is a bad man, an impostor, a creator of wicked schemes.

I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time.

I also wanted to have fun with it. I wanted to have the scope, which I felt Merlin has, in his Machiavellian bi-polar way. He's not to be trusted, yet he is fighting for this great power and is really a master, to some degree, in orchestrating Camelot and King Arthur. He's a strange, dark devious character, and I just wanted to have fun, and get away from the cloak and long beard and pointy hat.

It's fun playing the bad guy. It comes naturally.

A 'Clean Bandit' is a total bastard!

Everything is presented in as devious a manner as it could possibly be presented.

I'm the evil mastermind behind the scenes. I'm the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes you dance. I'm your writer.

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

... a bird of questionable moral character.

… that insidious man

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

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

Are you a devious, plotting, unreliable madman? Ah, good, then you can be my most trusted advisor.

My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.

… the most sophisticated politician in the country … familiar with every subterranean channel of politics … the most cunning in the devious ways of politics … the most artful politician in the tricks of the craft

How could you deal with a creature as devious as woman.

Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.