Quotes About Slyness

You sparkle with larceny.

Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. "As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor.

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

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss }

With a leer of mingled sweetness and slyness; with one eye on the future, one on the bride, and an arch expression in her face, partly spiritual, partly spirituous, and wholly professional and peculiar to her art; Mrs Gamp rummaged in her pocket again [...]

I bet that guy could steal the stink off of shit

Old foxes want no tutors.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his wife may teach him. I thought him very sly;—he hardly ever mentioned your name. But slyness seems the fashion.

But here she did injustice to the fire and independence of his character, for it led him to escape out of Longbourn House the next morning with admirable slyness, and hasten to Lucas Lodge to throw himself at her feet.

The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

He does so by deceit.

You let the fairies fox you while the devil Does you.

He had known that emotions could change a person's perception of facts, but he had never imagined them capable of such slyness. It was important to keep an eye on them--to remain alert to their secret workings.

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

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

Cardan is clever, but it's not a nice kind of cleverness.

Snakelike butt-coverers, the whole lot of them.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

Lucille smiled innocently. "Mischief managed." She sent Callie a wink and moved off.

Une femme, si peu qu'elle soit pourvue de malice, n'a pas besoin qu'on lui en revende; elle a le magasin chez elle, avec tous les assaisonnements de malignes pratiques.

What's he a mix of—fox with fox?