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Quotes About Wily

Her mind was wily though, twisty. Thoughts she did not like wormed in from the sides, from beneath, through the cracks, from places she had battened down.
~ Colson Whitehead
Il était malin, celui qui a inventé ce truc-là
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The old Establishment has always preserved its position by not being too exclusive - it has been wily enough to absorb the up-and-coming and convert them to their attitudes and mannerisms.
~ Andrew Neil
This coyote is a wily dog born from ancient trickster bones, Loki, Hermes, the northwestern Raven of lore
~ Toby Barlow
liberally equipped with one-way pockets
~ P.G. Wodehouse
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
I might have been slight-but I was smart and cagey.
~ Jack Gantos
I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
~ Jack Vance
The idea that the United States is a nation of chumps that has spent the past fifty years getting ripped off by wily foreigners is absurd. The
~ Madeleine K. Albright
They look witless and dull, which lulls their enemies, but they are clever. They will remember your face.
~ Madeline Miller
'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Women are sneaky.
~ Patricia Briggs