Quotes About Slyness

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

"Ha! ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see,The Devil knows how to row."

But girls are sly, especially when their lovers are concerned.

Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels.

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

occasionally I can be quite evil, when there's no-one around to realise.

He smiled like a cat with fresh chipmunk blood on his whiskers.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Quincas Berro Dágua, divertidíssimo, tentava passar rasteiras no cabo e no negro, estendia a língua para os transeuntes, enfiou a cabeça por uma porta para espiar, malicioso, um casal de namorados, pretendia, a cada passo, estirar-se na rua.

If you catch him, hold up a flashlight to his eye. It's all dark pupil, an entire night itself, whose haired horizon tightens as he stares back, and closes up the eye. Then from the lids one tear, his only possession, like the bee's sting, slips. Slyly he palms it, and if you're not paying attention he'll swallow it. However, if you watch, he'll hand it over, cool as from undergrouns springs and pure enough to drink.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

I love playing the bad guy getting away with stuff. I was that kid who learned from my older brothers who got away with everything by smiling.

Chuckling darkly over

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

Distance belongs to it, slyness belongs to it, quarest things on earth belongs to it. There, 'tmay as well come early as late s'far as I know. The sooner begun, the sooner over; for come it will.

Old foxes want no tutors.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

In every deed of mischief he had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.

'The Infinities' is a shortish book but densely loaded with Nabokovian slyness, gorgeous imagery, and disturbing insights into what it means to be mortal.

When I was a young boy, before I was cut, I traveled with a troupe of mummers through the Free Cities. They taught me that each man has a role to play, in life as well as mummery. So it is at court. The King's Justice must be fearsome, the master of coin must be frugal, the Lord Commander of the Kingsguard must be valiant … and the master of whisperers must be sly and obsequious and without scruple. A courageous informer would be as useless as a cowardly knight.

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