Quotes About Guile

In these cases, the mind knows what it's doing better than the guile, because the mind flows, the guile dams up, that is, the mind stride but the guile limps. And that's no guileless statement, however, and that's no Harvard like, as MIT will measure soon with computers and docks of Martian data.

The Painting is not shit,' said Lucien. 'I know,' said Henri. 'That was just part of the subterfuge. I am of royal lineage; subterfuge is one of the many talents we carry in our blood, along with guile and hemophilia.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

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

I lie, I cheat, and I steal.

Guile is the shield and spear of the oppressed.

Katwe has no street signs. No addresses. It is a maze of rutted alleys and dilapidated shacks. It is a place where time is measured by where your shadow hits the ground. There are no clocks. No calendars. Because it lies just a few degrees from the equator, Katwe has no seasons, which adds to the repetitive, almost listless, nature of daily life. Every day is just like the next. Survival in Katwe depends on courage and determination as well as guile and luck.

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

The honest heart that's free frae a' Intended fraud or guile, However Fortune kick the ba', Has aye some cause to smile. BURNS.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Kurnazl??a yak?n her ?ey basitliktir.

guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.

The steward had been more circumspect after that. He had learned - as Odysseus had learned after a certain number of years of his wanderings - that his guile was no match for the world and that hubris would always be punished by the gods.

Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms.

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

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

When devils do the worst sins, they first put on the pretense of goodness and innocence, as I am doing now.

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

An uncommon prudence is habitual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.

He did not relish the topic; he sensed in Jane Rochford's tone the peculiar cruelty of women. They fight with the poor weapons God has bestowed – spite, guile, skill in deceit – and it is likely that in conversations between themselves they trespass in places where a man would never trust his footing.

Not prayer nor Bible verse, nor scholarship nor wit, nor grant under seal nor statute law can alter the fact of villain blood. Not all his craft and guile can make him a Howard, or a Cheney, or a Fitzwilliam, a Stanley or even a Seymour: not even in an emergency.

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

A arte de agradar é a arte de enganar.

Adelaide played statecraft with all the guile and passion that she put into her other games, and Becky began to realize that perhaps she had been preparing for this with every throw of the dice, every move of a chess piece.