Quotes About Cunning

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

wits strong and clear

To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

Miss Holmes smiled. She had dimples. Of course she did—the Good Lord went to ridiculous lengths to make sure that one of the finest minds in existence was housed in a body least likely to be suspected of it.

The Last Theorem is at the heart of an intriguing saga of courage, skulduggery, cunning, and tragedy, involving all the greatest heroes of mathematics.

In dealing with cunning people, we must ever consider their needs to interpret their speeches.

Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

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

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

It has been said that love robs those who have it of their wit, and gives it to those who have none.

Knowing how to get out of a bad situation may be the rarest of all speculative gifts.

A thief never makes a noise by accident.

I love stupid plans.

I am a master of foolhardy plans.

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

A successful thief doesn't depend on things being unlikely to happen, I said.

The Attolian king obviously had a deep well of spite and I would've appreciated his low cunning more if I hadn't thought the Attolian was about to wring my neck.

I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted from a complete and pure devotion to Christ. 2 Corinthians 11:3

You can't just shoot your way out of every scenario in 'Resident Evil' games. You have to use your intelligence.

I think everybody's got a malicious side.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

The professional blows critics off. He doesn't even hear them. Critics, he reminds himself, are the unwitting mouthpieces of Resistance and as such can be truly cunning and pernicious. They can articulate in their reviews the same toxic venom that Resistance itself concocts inside our heads. That is their real evil.

Critics, he reminds himself, are the unwitting mouthpieces of Resistance and as such can be truly cunning and pernicious. They can articulate in their reviews the same toxic venom that Resistance itself concocts inside our heads. That is their real evil. Not that we believe them, but that we believe the Resistance in our own minds, for which critics serve as unconscious spokespersons.

As he left, I peered at Sarah Mapps and her mother, the way they grabbed hands and squeezed in relief, and then at Nina, at the small exultation on her face. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinions of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning the Fates had been. Nina was one wing, I was the other.