Strategy Quotes

“But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.”

“I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I havebeen politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.”

“My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.”

“Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,And think perchance they'll sell; if not,The lustre of the better yet to showShall show the better.”

“Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.”

“When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.”

“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of bias,By indirections find directions out.”

“Were it goodTo set the exact wealth of all our statesAll at one cast? to set so rich a mainOn the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?It were not good.”

“He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.”

“'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.”

“When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner”

“There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)”

“Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.”

“The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of.”

“Tis better using France than trusting France;Let us be back'd with God, and with the seas,Which He hath given for fence impregnable,And with their helps only defend ourselves;In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies.”

“How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,As I perchance hereafter shall think meetTo put an antic disposition on.”

“We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.”

“If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.”

“The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.”

“Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.”

“They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.”

“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.”

“There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them”

“Wars are not won by evacuations.”

“We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.”