History Quotes / BeneathNotice

->''Incidentally, while you are correct that the streets of London have ears, it might also behoove you in the future not to take the first cab that comes along. Cab-drivers have ears too, if they choose to use them.''

->''If someone wears garb that's official-looking but unobtrusive, acts as if they belong, and above all doesn't make eye contact, they can go almost anywhere without being seen.''

-->-- "Literature/FeminineIntuition"

-->-- "Literature/AStudyInEmerald"

->“People looked at a rumpled academic and dismissed him as a scholar and a nonentity. They didn’t start asking themselves how many knives he was carrying. That would have been silly, and the last thing a Covenant scholar inspired was ''silliness''.”
-->-- ''Literature/InCryptid'', “Halfway Through the Wood”

->Most other vampires have no idea that the Nosferatu have [[WeAreEverywhere such a toehold in human society]]. Confident that no self-respecting mortal [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier would feed]] from a Nosferatu, other clans continue to control their politicians and artists and tycoons. These ghouls in turn ignore the "lowly" servants and sanitation workers who hover around them, listening...
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Nosferatu''

->How often do ''you'' notice the servants?
-->--Image notes for '''The Maggot,''' ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade - Infernalism]]''

->'''[[TheWoobie Scorpius]]:''' How can I take anything? I'm not strong enough.\\
'''[[EvilMentor Tauza]]:''' [[LongGame Bide your time. Gather your strength]]. Become invisible.\\
'''Young!Scorpius:''' Become invisible? I don't understand. How do I do that?\\
'''Tauza:''' A cunning underling can learn much while revealing little. No one pays a beast of burden any heed. [[BewareTheQuietOnes Learn to serve without complaint]]. A good servant draws no punishment and is soon forgotten. The forgotten become invisible. And the invisible are free to seek out their masters' weaknesses.\\
[''Flashforward to an older Scorpius [[{{Irony}} using this very lesson]] [[TheDogBitesBack to stab Tauza's eyes out]]'']
-->--''Series/{{Farscape}}: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie''

->''See, no one ever thinks about the cabbie. It’s like you’re invisible. Just the back of an ‘ead. Proper advantage for a serial killer.''
-->--''Series/{{Sherlock}}''

-->--''Literature/{{Nation}}''

'''Thora Grey:''' I can't ... I don't know how to ... He had glasses, I think ... and a shabby overcoat ... [=[...]=] He stooped ... I don't know. I hardly looked at him. He wasn't the sort of man you'd notice ...\\

-->--''Literature/TheABCMurders''

->Izuku knew from experience that no one expected anything from a [[UnSorcerer quirkless kid]], especially one who didn’t even stand up to his own bullies. If Izuku Midoriya was ever a suspect for Mastermind, his lack of quirk would instantly clear him of any suspicion. If the police looked past that, then the fact that none of his bullies had died mysteriously in the last year would be brought in as evidence that he obviously “wasn’t capable” of being the villain. What the police wouldn’t know is that Izuku Midoriya, quirkless deku, was a mask. And if they managed to look past all that? Well, then they were smarter than Izuku gave them credit for and maybe, just maybe, they deserved to arrest him.
-->--''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire''

-->--"Literature/FeminineIntuition"

->'''This''' ''is how they see you. [...] You're their '''champion'''. Bigger than life. No wonder the eyeglasses work-- nobody would look for you dressed like '''them'''!''
-->-- '''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''', ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004''

->'''''This''' is how they see you. [...] You're their '''champion'''. Bigger than life. No wonder the eyeglasses work-- nobody would look for you dressed like '''them'''!''

->'''This''' is how they see you. [...] You're their '''champion'''. Bigger than life. No wonder the eyeglasses work-- nobody would look for you dressed like '''them'''!

->'''[[TheWoobie Young!Scorpius]]:''' How can I take anything? I'm not strong enough.
->'''[[EvilMentor Tauza]]:''' [[LongGame Bide your time. Gather your strength]]. Become invisible.
->'''Young!Scorpius:''' Become invisible? I don't understand. How do I do that?
->'''Tauza:''' A cunning underling can learn much while revealing little. No one pays a beast of burden any heed. [[BewareTheQuietOnes Learn to serve without complaint]]. A good servant draws no punishment and is soon forgotten. The forgotten become invisible. And the invisible are free to seek out their masters' weaknesses.
->[''Flashforward to an older Scorpius [[{{Irony}} using this very lesson]] [[TheDogBitesBack to stab Tauza's eyes out]]'']

->'''Hercule Poirot:''' ''A vous la parole!'' Describe this man.
->'''Thora Grey:''' I can't ... I don't know how to ... He had glasses, I think ... and a shabby overcoat ... [=[...]=] He stooped ... I don't know. I hardly looked at him. He wasn't the sort of man you'd notice ...
->'''Hercule Poirot:''' You are quite right, mademoiselle. The whole secret of the murders lies there in your description of the murderer -- for without a doubt he ''was'' the murderer! ''"He wasn't the sort of man you'd notice."'' Yes -- there is no doubt about it ... You have described the murderer!

-->--''Fanfic/MastermindStrategistForHire''

-->--''Literature/TheABCMurders''

-->--''Literature/{{Nation}}''

-->--'''Series/{{Sherlock}}''

-->--'''Series/{{Sherlock}}''

-->--''Series/{{Farscape}}: Let Sleeping Dogs Lie''

-->--Image notes for '''The Maggot,''' ''[[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Mage: The Sorcerer's Crusade - Infernalism]]''