33 Underhanded Quotes

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Short Underhanded Quotes

  • I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand. — Ty Cobb
  • You can do all manner of underhanded nice things when you have a caustic reputation. — Markus Zusak
  • Throwing a ball is not natural, whether it's overhand or underhand. — Jennie Finch
  • I'd shoot zero percent before I'd shoot underhanded. — Shaquille O'Neal
  • You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals — Ian Paisley

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Ty Cobb
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Read quotes by Markus Zusak

Markus Zusak

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Read quotes by Jennie Finch

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Read quotes by Shaquille O'Neal

Shaquille O'Neal
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More Underhanded Quotes

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one. — Stefan Zweig

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive — Kate Burridge

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand. — Milton Berle

I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it. — Matt Groening

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system. — Barack Obama

Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous. — Tupac Shakur

I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning — Joseph Heller

Whenever you see riot footage on TV - you know, someone throwing a brick in Pakistan or somebody throwing a fiery piece of pooh through a Starbucks window up in Seattle - you ever see anybody throwing anything underhand? I think it just takes all the aggression out of the act. — Brian Posehn

Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading is equally a crime against Privacy and Personhood. One to five years on each count. — Walter Tevis

Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it. — Glenn Beck

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job. — Ian St John

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground. — Charles Dickens

Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it. — Ernest Hemingway

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way. — Damon Hill

Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn't want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you'd cheat! I knew you'd win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming Aaaaaaaaaaaa, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it's just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life! — Bill Watterson

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job. — Ian St. John

Obama administration has been the most narcotics-jailing administration ever. I just think it's so ironic and underhanded. It's so contrary to the consciousness and the feeling of the rest of the country. With a Democrat running things, it's still just the same things going on. — Alan Sparhawk

And as secretary of state, I fought hard for American businesses to get a fair shot around the world and to stop underhanded trading practices like currency manipulation and the theft of intellectual property. — Hillary Clinton

The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics. — Tamara Keith

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government. — Jay-Z

I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused. — William Joyce

Peace of mind just can't be bought. Trust me: Even if your conscience doesn't stop you from playing dirty to get what you want, once you get it, it will keep you from enjoying it. As my mother used to say, "A good conscience is God's eye." Which is why I always prefer a loss to an underhanded gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time. — Patti LaBelle

People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, capable of great acts of charity, and on the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It's a constant battle that rages within all of us, between the better angels of our nature and the temptations of our inner demons. And sometimes, the only way to ward off the darkness is to shine the light of compassion. — Mary Alice

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