Quotes About Cunning

He called the scientific subjects 'low cunning', and would sniff and say, 'This room smells of mathematics! Go out and fetch a disinfectant spray!

Mr. Reeves told me, that I should find the Baronet a very troublesome and resolute Lover, if I did not give him countenance. And so, Sir, said I, you would have me do, as I have heard many a good woman has done, marry a man, in order to get rid of his importunity. And a certain cure too, let me tell you, cousin, said he, smiling.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

but now that I know it's possible for a couple of zebras to outsmart a crocodile, life is starting to look up -Joe

muitas vezes, quem sai vencedor de uma disputa deve sua vitória não tanto à correção de seu julgamento na exposição de sua tese, mas, antes, à astúcia e habilidade com que a defendeu.

I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished, Locke whispered. There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?

Aquel que ha atrapado al diablo, ¡que no lo suelte!; no volverá a atraparlo por segunda vez.

No one is going to know about this, or should I be more explicit?" "Yes," she replied sharply. "I am brilliantly cunning and stupidly dense at the same time.Do continue treating me like a child." "Your sarcasm is uncalled-for." "I disagree.Actually,I will probably disagree with you henceforth whether I agree with you or not! I can behave like a child if you insist on treating me like one.

Antiochus shall act prosperously according to his mental perception, and shall be so assisted by' his craftiness, as to obtain whatever he shall grasp at.

Cats are very intelligent at all the things that cats need to be intelligent about.

and conniving where he was clever.

clever wasn't the same as honest. Ferrier

Much malice mingled with a little wit.

Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

The tricky ones cannot survive without doing tricks.

Kalau orang tanpa kecerdasan memadai mencoba mengandalkan kecerdikannya, berarti dia bermain api.

Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

A crafty wolf does not mind to find the support from the cunning foxes and rather enjoys only.

A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fools.

A person's thought can not be crafty, cunning and clever unless and until there is a slot of selfishness in the soul and the clot of ego in the heart to distort or rot his/her mind.

The crook and clever people give never credit to a right, ordinary, simple person for his original thoughts or good deeds, but if they are left with no choice then very cunningly they try to play a dirty game to alter somewhat his name in the attribution.

A man of wit could not be a knave or villain.

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away, And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life, which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain; But who can get another life again?

A fox is subtlety itself.