Quotes About Cunning

Well, that's an evil smile...

there's one thing I'm good at, it's lying on my feet. It's sort of a gift I have.

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.

He had always found it easier to go up against an intelligent adversary. Stupid people were unpredictable.

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

There is the natural liar...Always says the thing that sounds best.

a mad man has all the advantages on his side.

It is a great advantage to be intelligent and not to look it.

If you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs.

Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them.

The very simple-minded have often the genius to commit an uncomplicated crime and then leave it alone.

When you look your most innocent is when you are up to something.' Revolving

He has a kind of genius for going to the root of the matter, and right up to the end no one has any idea of what he is really thinking.

You know, Mrs. Dacres is quite my idea of a murderess—so hard and remorseless." "She's ever so hard—and she's got a wicked temper!

Quando se quer apanhar um coelho, mete-se-lhe uma doninha na toca, e se o coelho lá estiver, foge. Foi tudo o que fiz.

He used deliberation as others use quickness of repartee.

But what you don't seem to realise is that Armstrong is mad! And a madman has all the advantages on his side. He's twice as cunning as anyone sane can be.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

We learn, under occupation, that there's more rat in us than we knew.

European starvation was rather more cunning and wore a series of clever masks: death came by drink, by tuberculosis, by the knife, by despair in all its manifestations.

Wisdom wins where might fails.

I saw immediately what they were: human technology that had become haunted, possessed by quick, gleaming cleverness. I had seen smart machines before then, but nothing with the agility and cunning of true intelligence. I knew instantly that these were a different order of machine. Some alchemy of chaos and complexity had given their minds powers of consciousness and free will.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

She smiled at him like they were about to rob a bank together.