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Chicanery Quotes

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Erik Pevernagie
“It takes our breath away when we see how many cards some people have got up their sleeves. Using deceptive or manipulative tactics, they are out to gain our confidence or take advantage of our inattention. 鈥淐hicanery鈥� operates in the dark net but is often also undisguised. Its maneuver ground is so impenetrable and the strategy so unpredictable that it has, undoubtedly, become an arresting buzzword in our world.
(鈥淭he infinite Wisdom of Meditation鈥�)”
Erik Pevernagie

John  Adams
“Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.”
John Adams

Ouida
“To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.”
Ouida, Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida

Justina Ireland
“Momma used to say there were lots of ways to survive. Don't e afraid to pretend to be something you aren't, Jane. Some times a little subterfuge and chicanery is in order and the quickest way to achieve one's goal. It ain't hard to imagine Ida pretending to be just another dumb colored girl in order to make it out here. Survival by any means necessary.”
Justina Ireland, Dread Nation

“Colonial America had looked upon (lawyers) as mere tradesmen who earned a questionable living by cleverness and chicanery.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen, Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family