Quotes About Cunning

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

you know how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

how to be wicked, and being wicked is smart in this day and age.

Don't think this means I'm giving up. There's more than one way to decapitate a hellhound, and as it so happens, I know them all.

She's delightfully Machiavellian, and she hates to lose." Xander was absolutely unapologetic. "I like what that does to my odds.

Henry had a rare gift for sounding reasonable no matter what he was saying.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.

A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no Witness in

I breathed enough to learn the trick, And now, removed from air, I simulate the breath so well, That one, to be quite sure The lungs are stirless, must descend Among the cunning cells, And touch the pantomime himself. How cool the bellows feels!

I bet, said Mulch, that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn. Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer. Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.

So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you? The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. My name is Orion. I am so pleased to meet you at last. I am, of course, your servant. Holly shook the proferred hand, thinking that manners were lovely, but she really needed someone cunning and ruthless right now, and this kid didn't appear to be very cunning.

Wait, said Butler. Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan. He squinted through the green dome. What is your plan, Artemis? All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

Artemis ducked. Cudgeon didn't. Guess what? Artemis was smarter.

Maybe I'll keep you." Abbot chuckled and prodded Artemis's back with his sword. "It'd be nice to have a pet human around. I could teach you tricks." "I have a trick for you," said Artemis, and he fired a single blast from the gun.

I am so sick of you smart kids. Why can't you just boost cars or steal stuff like normal kids?' 'We do steal stuff. Just bigger stuff.

It was a smart move.

Ik geef je twee woorden. Heb je zin om een gokje te wagen hoe die luiden?' Holly wist het meteen. Ze vóélde het gewoon. 'Artemis Fowl,' fluisterde. 'Precies,' bevestigde Vinyáya. 'Artemis Fowl.

Ze zou het hem nooit of te nimmer vertellen, maar als er ooit een mens ingeschakeld moest worden om het elfenvolk te redden, dan was Artemis vermoedelijk de beste kandidaat voor deze klus.

The main requirements seem to be: audacity and a joy in defiance; an iron will; a fanatical conviction that he is in possession of the one and only truth; faith in his destiny and luck; a capacity for passionate hatred; contempt for the present; a cunning estimate of human nature;

An epistemic methodology that sees the pursuit of knowledge as entirely congruent with the search for power is a great deal more cunning than wise. It can needlessly undermine the value of knowledge in satisfying curiosity and interest; it significantly weakens one of the profound characteristics of human beings.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.