Quotes About Guile

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

Trouble is, he wasn't clever enough to pretend to be a little less clever.

I'm giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It's too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to hear a kind word from your lips. But that ship sank under an assault of bitterness that no amount of charm or guile will recover. (Zephyra)

She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.

but we people of fashion know better things. We know self-love and insincerity to be useful and important qualities, the grand cement which binds our intercourse with each other. Born a superior race, we can bid truth and plain honesty depart; and, having dressed falsehood and guile in all the fascination of the senses, can bow down before the idol of our own creation.

Butter wouldn't have melted my smile, I swear.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Into two ranks did the armies dress themselves, and, when that their names were read aloud, so that in their numbers there would be no guile, each Knight did respond unto his name. Then were the gates shut, and then did the cry resound: "Do now your duty, young Knights proud!

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'dThe mother of mankind.

This world is much too sad a place For Fannie's warm and happy smile. The feeling she feels far too deep For the endless heartless guile Of this unfriendly world." He

There is something of both childishness and sorcery in a woman making up. The event keeps the world in suspense by the simple interaction between a mirror and a face. It is the reconciliation of technique and guile. It has no equivalent in the universe of thought except perhaps when suffering is dressed up in ascetic garb. It is, moreover, each day (and several times a day) the sacrificial moment of a woman's life.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

Tall Shadow, your gift for stalking and guile; Clear Sky, your gift for bringing down birds from the air; Turtle Tail, your speed and sharp eyes; Rainswept Flower, your ability to track far-off prey by scent alone.

Always seeing a child as the innocent left you open to not seeing when the child was scheming to take you down. It

Actually, I'm an excellent liar. But what I'm really good at is appearing appropriately sheepish and adorable after I'm caught.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

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

Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty.

I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board

And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows.

I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.