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Quotes About Slyness

Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.
~ Proverb
He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.
~ Dashiell Hammett
He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.
~ Wilson Mizner
No fox is foxier than man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Beware of epigram! It is one of Satan's favourite disguises.
~ WILLIAM ARCHER
With foxes we must play the fox.
~ Thomas Fuller
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.
~ Richard A. Knaak
Oh Satan you're a wily one.
~ Craig Ferguson
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.
~ Jeff Greenfield
Football is a game, and people have to be cunning.
~ Rivaldo
Direct attacks were foolhardy. The circumspect survived. And the deceitful prevailed.
~ Robert Ferrigno
you know how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.
~ Jen Calonita
how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.
~ Jen Calonita
The Devil, of course, must have been or must be a very charming person.
~ Max von Sydow
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.
~ Robert Jordan
Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly.
~ Robert Jordan
Like foxes to a dustbin,
~ Robert Galbraith
The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.
~ Robin Hobb
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….
~ Frank Herbert
A fox is subtlety itself.
~ Aristophanes
People love gentle larceny.
~ Dan Aykroyd
How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
~ Margaret Atwood
A snake never shares what she knows unless it serves her own purposes.
~ Elizabeth Bear