Quotes About Shrewd

Wicked, and — of course, perceptive.

I like that about the English people. They are sharp.

If politics is a game of shrewd and knowing men, Trump has ruined it.

My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever as this.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

It's important to me to play men who use their brains, not just brawn.

Honestly, for me, I'm a businessman but I'm a smart businessman.

I think I am a savvy businesswoman.

witches, such as Jadis, "are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical";

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Tip began to nod, then shook his head. "I could be eight kinds of crooked, there, piglet, but I ain't never been no kind of dumb.

I am a monstrous clever fellow.

She was human, sensible, shrewd. She was above all, and in every detail, practical. But more than that: she was one of that part of humankind which understands how things work ; and works with them. A grim enough role.

Gorgeous I called him and that he is, Maeve: you'd be surprised. And nasty I called him, and that, Maeve, was a shrewd piece of insight, for nasty he certainly is. And a clever bastard, I called him.… Not to his face, dear. We're not all born to be heroes. But what he may not know, Maeve, is that I'm a clever bastard as well.

He had known George Barton ever since the latter's boyhood. Barton's uncle had been a country neighbour of the Races. There was a difference of over twenty years between the two men. Race was over sixty, a tall, erect, military figure, with sunburnt face, closely cropped iron-grey hair, and shrewd dark eyes.

From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.

Only his eyes were the same as ever, shrewd and twinkling, and now — yes, undoubtedly — softened with emotion.

Peoples think I's a harmless idiot," he said. "They's only half right.

She didn't look hard, but she looked as if she had heard all the answers and remembered the ones she thought she might be able to use sometime.

I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.

I learned from both my parents that you had to be clever.

Jorginho is a very good player, clever, fast.