Quotes About Cunning

He thinks I will hit him. Strike him, with a large stick. Foolish mule. Oh no, I am much more cunning. I will surprise him with kindness… until he grows calm and dispenses with all watchfulness, and then… ha! I shall punch him in the nose! Won't he be surprised! No mule can match wits with me. Oh yes, many have tried, and almost all have failed!

Always know I have something up my sleeve.

I always know how to play this game. It's about being smart.

I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart.

Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.

I do believe all actors are smart.

You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.

I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.

I'm a little smarter than most.

They're the smartest, most cunning, slick, coolest group of people on the planet. Generation Z, I love y'all.

I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.

Snakes are sick.

She liked sheep more than any other animal; they had an innocence and a serene intentness about them that was worlds away from the brutish cunning and manic excitability of, say, vodsels. Seen in poor light, they could almost be human children.

Dan dengan seorang laki-laki yang sekedar seorang penjahat, jika kau cepat, kau selalu bisa menghindari yang terburuk darinya. Ini cara pintar yang ingin kau lihat. Mereka punya cara-cara lebih buruk untuk menyakitimu, dan kau tidak selalu melihat mereka datang - Ehara

And for Peter... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.

Evil is smart, boy. Never forget that." Zach was certain he wouldn't.

A man only has to be chased with firearms for him to turn into a cunning wolf: in place of his weak, and in really desperate situations useless intellect, the wisdom of animal instinct will suddenly take over.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

But I'd rather work smart than hard.

It's one thing to be the mistress. That's easy work. But to get the ring? That takes a ruthless cunning you can't help but respect.

Chuckling darkly over

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

Nicci looked up at Kahlan. "Knives are not my talent." "It's not hard," Kahlan said as she pressed the handle into Nicci's hand. "When the time is right, just stick the pointed end somewhere important in someone you really don't like.

When you are facing superior strength, you must use your wits.