Quotes About Shrewdness

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.

Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.

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.

Bob Baffert is not stupid.

Common sense is as rare as genius.

He was one of those people with lots of intelligence but no brains

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He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity. His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spellbound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

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

Such a sweet letter from Lady Conway... You remember my telling you about her? Her memory's bad. Can't recognize her relations always and tells them to go away." "That might be shrewdness really," said Miss Marple, "rather than a loss of memory.

He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.

Women can be fools in ninety-nine different ways but be pretty shrewd in the hundredth.

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

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

He looked as though he knew how to take care of himself. There was a shrewd, buoyant air about him as he sat up, looked round and rubbed both front paws over his nose.

We think we're so clever. And yet we're always surprised to find ourselves entrapped or made fools of.

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

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. It is the shrewdness of the fox after the chicken. A low order of mentality often goes with it.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

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.