Quotes About Astuteness

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

The sharp employ the sharp.

MEETING THE EYE You'll probably find that it suits your book to be a bit cleverer than you look. Observe that the easiest method by far is to look a bit stupider than you are.

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

Bob Baffert is not stupid.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

Odio la astucia cuando uno no se siente realmente astuto, ni quiere serlo. No puedo enorgullecerme de ir espiando por ahí y jactarme de que llevo a cabo grandes planes. Odio pensar que estoy cumpliendo con mi deber cuando no estoy seguro de que sea así.

as pessoas com mentes manifestavam por vezes tendência para se tornar espertas.

there's one thing I'm good at, it's lying on my feet. It's sort of a gift I have.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

you have the beautiful and unsuspicious mind. Years do not change that in you! You perceive a fact and mention the solution of it in the same breath without noticing that you are doing so!

sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge

Miss Marple is not the type of elderly lady who makes mistakes. She has got an uncanny knack of being always right.

He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.

Who are you? You don't belong to the police?" "I am better than the police," said Poirot. He said it without conscious arrogance. It was, to him, a simple statement of fact.

Crazy people only lose their cunning last, if they ever lose it.

There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

A half smart guy, she said with a tired sniff. That's all I ever draw. Never once a guy that's smart all the way around the course. Never once.

One of Dalziel's dicta for police and public was, if you can't be honest you'd better be fucking clever.

But if you're very clever, I think there's something that can unhinge you if you're not careful.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.