Quotes About Cunning

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

You have to be savvy. You have to be tactically aware, because that's what makes the difference in the big matches.

There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.

Every man for himself, the devil for all.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say, and if indeed sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find. Niccolò Machiavelli, in a letter to Francesco Gnicciardini, May 17, 1521

No one likes feeling stupider than the next person. The trick, then, is to make your victims feel smart—and not just smart, but smarter than you are. Once convinced of this, they will never suspect that you may have ulterior motives.

Sigue la ciega Fortuna / a la audacia ciega y loca, / y muchas veces los cuerdos / lo son haciendo las cosas / sin dar tiempo a la cordura / de examinarlas juiciosa.

CONCEAL YOUR INTENTIONS

Do not underestimate the power of Tafari. He creeps like a mouse but he has jaws like a loin. - Balcha of Sidamo's last words before entering the monastery.

So we need to be subtle—congenial yet cunning, democratic yet devious.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning. -Mat

Beware the fox that makes the ravens fly.

The Father of Lies never lays simple plans

you'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed

She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.

spoke through her teeth, another skill

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

sucios subterfugios maquinados en la mezquindad para anular el verdadero espíritu de todas las leyes

knew enough to use their blindness to our advantage.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

Well, that's an evil smile.

Odysseus is always slipping out, the man who has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything