Quotes About Cunning

If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them.

If you can't make a smart play, you make a bat-shit crazy one.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Granted, a man may smile and smile and be a villain, but it takes nerve.

These boots are worth more than you, damn it!' Shadikshirram was sitting on her bed, eyes shining wet, straining forward and trying to grab her foot but so drunk she kept missing. When she saw him she sagged back. 'Give me a hand, eh?' 'As long as you don't need two,' said Yarvi. She gurgled with laughter. 'You're a clever little crippled bastard, aren't you? I swear the gods sent you. Sent you . . . to get my boots off.

I am warned of evils that await me," continued Vivaldi, musing; "of events that are regularly fulfilled; the being who warns me, crosses my path perpetually, yet, with the cunning of a demon, as constantly eludes my grasp, and baffles my pursuit! It is incomprehensible, by what means he glides thus away from my eye, and fades, as if into air, at my approach! He is repeatedly in my presence, yet is never to be found!

Oh, no. He was furry, not stupid.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

They proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.

You are unsentimental, almost incapable of affection, astute without being cunning and vain without being proud.

Counterintuitive action makes a fellow feel smart.

In the land of the skunks, he who has half a nose is king.

I prefer to be a villainess. There's something a bit more delicious about their wickedness.

I always pick characters where it's not his muscles or dance skills that help him, because not all of us can look like that. I am more like someone who'd beat up ten guys, not with his muscles, but his strategy.

Real pirates were better than in movies, more daring and terrifying and cunning than any screenwriter could imagine. They operated during the Golden Age of Piracy, from 1650 to 1720.

Harold,' she would say, 'do you think I'm a fool? If I place the Crimson Diamond in any safe-deposit vault in New York, somebody will steal it, sooner or later.' Then she would nibble a sprig of catnip and peer cunningly at me.

The word of a cat is not to be relied upon.

I'm a sociopath. I look normal, but I'm not. I'm smarter

He didn't seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.

The guardians with their stern faces had no creative power. But they had strength and cunning, and they had found a way to steal and harness other people's powers for their own needs. They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.

Yes, you do. You get everything you want out of people. I don't know how you do it, but you are a born wheedler. Thank you. Fire away.

The whiskey had its own mind. Or spirit, he said. A cunning spirit. Sometimes it fooled him. Sometimes it set him free.

While they thought they were leading me into a trap, I let them go into the trap themselves.

Akela, the great gray Lone Wolf, who led all the Pack by strength and cunning, lay out at full length on his rock, and below him sat forty or more wolves of every size and color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle a buck alone to young black three-year-olds who thought they could. The