Quotes About Cunning

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways,Are the children of Men.

I am no minister of malice. I would not strike the fallen. I would not repel the repentant, but may my "right hand forget her cunning, and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth," if I forget the difference between the parties to that terrible, protracted, and bloody conflict.

Rafiniert ist der Herr Hietschie, aber böshaft ist er nicht.

For too long has everything divine been utilized, And all the heavenly powers, the kindly ones, thrown away, Consumed for kicks by thankless, Cunning men, who, when the exalted One works in their fields, think they Know the daylight and the Thunderer, And their telescope might see them all and Count and name all the stars in heaven; But the Father covers our eyes with holy Night so we might remain. He loves no wildness! Our expanding power will never force heaven.

Human history would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning contributions of the weak

When I picture a perfect reader, I always picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer

history would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning

We have stopped deriving humanity from 'spirit', from 'divinity', we have stuck human beings back among the animals. We see them as the strongest animals because they are the most cunning: one consequence of this is their spirituality.

One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really is - which in everyday life is often as desirable as an umbrella,- is called ENTHUSIASM, including what belongs to it, for instance, virtue.

By the hedgehog,' said the smaller, grinning wickedly, 'but they'll think twice before they play at ambuscades again!

The Mouser grinned as he poked about with his gaze at the nastily slimed cobbles and the dead bodies and the scattered hardware. "Cat's Claw must be here somewhere," he muttered, "and I did hear the chink of gold.…" "You'd feel a penny under the tongue of a man you were strangling!" Fafhrd told him angrily.

Once in a while, a body's gotta use their God-given wiles and cunning when they're fightin' on the side of the angels/

Marriage is the grave or tomb of wit.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

You have to have your wits about you and think quickly on your feet.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

I like playing thieves.