Ploy Quotes

“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

“One of the authors, then a department head, found that this worked when a colleague was trying to manipulate and bully him (about office space); looking right at the colleague and loudly saying, “Don't mess with me, Jack. I teach negotiations!” made him back off. Jack was much nicer from then on, because he assumed his ploys wouldn't work.”
― Allan R. Cohen, Influence Without Authority

“I am emptied through shallow breaths.
Muscles tighten in my chest.
I think I am a fool dressed up in king’s chamber,
holding a four-leaf clover.”
― Zaineb Afzal, Spare Change