Quotes About Shrewdness

How clever of you, sir, to be rich rather than smart.

the way an Ugnaught gets to be an old Ugnaught is by being smart.

It is good to be brave, Lieutenant. It is better to be smart, and much less painful for those around you

Not many girls would have used their wits the way you did," the officer observed.

Una cosa es ser listo y otra ser inteligente.

These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish.

He has an old man's caution and a young man's ambition, and has never lacked for cunning.

You haggle like a crone with a codfish.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

After wisdom comes wit.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

You sparkle with larceny.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

A sucker don't ever catch on. A smart man don't ever sleep. He's got to keep ducking the traps.

You're just clever enough to be stupider than if you weren't clever at all

The one benefit of maturity is discovering just how crafty you can be.

Doing what he wanted to do and his boundless affinity for everything made Clay Demodocus a happy guy, but he was also shrewd enough not to be too open about his happiness. Animals might put up with that smiley shit, but people will eventually kill you for it.

It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.