Quotes About Slyness

Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.

No fox is foxier than man!

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Beware of epigram! It is one of Satan's favourite disguises.

With foxes we must play the fox.

Narrow, yellow eyes with no visible pupils sparkled with merriment, but the sort of merriment that came from pulling the wings off flies or the arms off experimental subjects.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always knows what's up, like nothing can ruffle him.

Football is a game, and people have to be cunning.

Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed.

you know how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.

Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly.

Like foxes to a dustbin,

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

He's awake and listening to us," said the old woman. "Sly little rascal." She chuckled. "But royalty has need of slyness. And if he's really the Kwisatz Haderach…well….

A fox is subtlety itself.

People love gentle larceny.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

A snake never shares what she knows unless it serves her own purposes.