Quotes About Cunning

But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

Horses, Death felt, shouldn't grin. Any horse that was grinning was planning something.

I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

had decided what to do, which was to smile like the morning sun with a knife in its teeth.

Sergeant Colon was lost in admiration. He'd seen people bluff on a bad hand, but he'd never seen anyone bluff with no cards.

Nobby had survived any number of famous massacres by not being there.

You see a wile, you thwart. Am I right?

You beat a dozen armed men single-handed? Oh aye, sir, said Wee Mad Arthur slyly, but it was nae fair, I had them outnumbered.

Heinrich had a reputation locally for cunning, but Ankh-Morpork had overtaken cunning a thousand years ago, had sped past devious, had left artful far behind, and had now, by a roundabout route, arrived at straightforward.

Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves.

Fools fight; winners think.

It's not what Ryodan does," Jo says slowly. "It's more what he is." Her eyes take on a serious sheen. "He's like, unbelievably brilliant, ten steps ahead of everyone else all the time." Bullshit. He's not that smart. I beat him at Triad. Once. About ten thousand years ago.

I forget nothing, Ms. Lane. I omit." "And evade." "Lie, cheat, and steal," he agreed. "If the shoe fits.

Was he that diabolical?

Men ziet niet veel, waar de duivel de kaars houdt. ~ Errki (Wie de wolf vreest)

Anybody could be smart. It took a special somebody to be clever.

The key to being a good thief, Sam always felt, was utter brazenness.

Belial continued with the sincerity of a politician.

The mind of man is never so cunning as when it is involved in the art of self-justification.

Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears.

How did he get so terribly smart, so determined? Maybe it was the pain I'd caused that made him that way, and if that were true, then I'd sort of had a hand in it, in making him as smart and devious as he was. I was really starting to dislike the guy. But I also felt a little proud, like Dr. Frankenstein must have felt when his monster turned on him, because after all, it was Dr. Frankenstein who had made the monster strong and cunning enough to turn on him.

Hatred and greed are heavy loads. Your motive, on the other hand, is love. And instead of priding yourselves on your cunning, you recognize how weak you are...so weak that you must depend totally on the Spirit of God.

There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect. It is slack-jawed, with leering eyes and loose wet lips, with heavy feet and ponderous cunning hands; now and then, when something tickles it, it guffaws, and when it is made angry it snarls; and it can be aroused much more easily than it can be quieted. Mike