Quotes About Cunning

The princess saw into the mind of her father, understood then its workings; cunning and twisting.

Don't fall for the glamour, beloved. We need our wits about us today.

Survival, to my mind, implies a finite probability that without luck and cunning, you will perish.

Therefore the skilful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

Chess is a lot of fun for me. Football is a physical game, and in chess you can just beat someone mentally - you outwit somebody, outmaneuver them, think ahead of them.

Don't make anybody Use you, be smart, else Dont curse them when they chew u out and throw you, they were smart not you

Grace O'Malley is a crafty devil.

Solya may not be wicked, but he likes to be too clever for everyone's good.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning...proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Todo cuanto el sombrerero destilaba de afabilidad y entusiasmo, don Ricardo exhalaba en crueldad y fortaleza. Su sonrisa canina dejaba claro que era capaz de leer sus pensamientos y sus deseos y que se reía de ellos. Sophie sintió por él ese anémico desprecio que despiertan las cosas que más deseamos sin saberlo

Brutal duplicity was his coinage. He played his games with little else.

You are full of shit, Sawyer O'Donnell. I believe that you invented the Blarney Stone instead of kissed it.

In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of they hypothetical whole. I believed in the tongue instead of the fist. As an armor against oppression I taught patience and faith in the human soul I know now how wrong I was. I have been a traitor to myself and to my people. All that is not. Now is the time to act and to act quickly. Fight cunning with cunning and might with might

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

He did it because he liked it. Still does. Dr. Lecter is not crazy, in any common way we think of being crazy. He did some hideous things because he enjoyed them. But he can function perfectly when he wants to.

Dr. Lecter took off Krendler's runner's headband as you would remove the rubber band from a tin of caviar.

pig is not like other animals. There is a spark of intelligence and a terrible practicality in pigs.

The urge to throw up his excellent breakfast was, he sensed, to be suppressed, for he suspected it meant that all his cunning body was doing was making room to digest the horrors of Kraksua Street.

Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

So to catch a madman, we have to think like a madman?" "I wouldn't advise it," Cassie said very quietly. "That abyss is darker and colder than you can even imagine.