Yanis Varoufakis

Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Greek Politician

Will Self

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.

English Author

Washington Irving

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

American Writer

William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

English Playwright

Miguel de Cervantes

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Spanish Novelist

Harold Pinter

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.

English Dramatist

Rex Stout

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Virgil

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

Roman Poet

Stratagem often implies clever deception to achieve goals.

Deceptive Nature

Stratagem is frequently used in military and combat situations.

Military Context

A stratagem is often a result of careful thought and planning, not random chance.

Clever Planning

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