Quotes About Shrewd

Ah! – esclamò il Gatto ascoltando. – Questa Donna è molto saggia; ma non saggia come me.

and conniving where he was clever.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Rafiniert ist der Herr Hietschie, aber böshaft ist er nicht.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

very clever

What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

So astute was he in his buying and selling, and in his borrowings, that no one knew if he was in debt.

Till then fool is alive ,clever will survive.

Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.

Before he became Amir, Abdur Rahman had been defeated by Shir Ali in Kabul. He took refuge in Samarkand where he spent ten years. Taking him for a country bumpkin, the Russians used to discuss all their political affairs before him, convinced that he did not understand them. But the future Amir had studied Russian secretly and learned much about Asiatic politics. Walking through the empty halls of Jahnama, I thought of him—bearded, shrewd, wearing the astrakhan kola,

His decision suggests that an absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

Hate will sharpen observation, affording opportunity for many a shrewd guess, and the construction of clever and false theories, but will leave the observer blind to the whole.

Flat she might be, but not stupid.

But truly, it was a practical decision, a smart business move.

My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

Wise, if unromantic.

think you are absolutely right, Father. I read in yesterday's paper that Winston Churchill is strongly opposed to the Free Trade Bill, and you know how shrewd he is. He is fighting it hard and I am sure it will be a troublesome time for the government, just as you say.

tiene menos escrúpulos que un buitre.

Listen carefully to what I am saying—and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes." NEVER WITHOUT A STORY

I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.

despaired of any rest or contentment in a world grown too busy for beauty and too shrewd for dreams

I'm what they call an intelligent hoodlum.