Quotes About Shrewd

Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.

A man one year elder to you is one cunning year elder to you.

All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be.

I am not a bad actor but a smart actor and I have exhausted my smartness now.

Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.

Sapient'? Whatever is that?" " 'Tis a clever word meaning wise. Which is a thing you would know if you was sapient yourself.

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

They look witless and dull, which lulls their enemies, but they are clever. They will remember your face.

Will Hamilton was a very substantial businessman. No one knew exactly how many pies his thumb had explored, but it was known that he was a clever and comparatively rich man.

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

I'll take a game of cards to stitchery any day. My brothers are shrewd, bordering on thieves when it comes to their cards—the best kind of teachers to have. Last

The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently.

It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent.

Diplomacy does not mean to become soft, but to be more cunning like a fox than the normal citizen. Killing two birds with one word.

especially when you add in his apparent fondness for parties, on the one hand, and prayer, on the other, and his remarkably shrewd ability to sum up situations, people, and problems in a pithy phrase or to tease out fresh meaning with a neat, telling story. What a man, we say to ourselves.

Women are sneaky.

John Kenneth Galbraith, "on the shrewd notion that people who are insecure, hungry, and without hope are not ardent defenders of liberal institutions or discriminating in the political systems they embrace.