Quotes About Cunning

I'm afraid any plans you have to kill him will have to wait—I believe he is the only person on the ship who can handle the maneuvering properly." Klag grinned. "Pity, that." "It's all part of my cunning plan," Leskit drawled from the pilot's station. "I'm trying to make myself indispensable." "Some of us would settle for useful," Klag said

If you're gonna catch criminals, you got to be a bit of one yourself.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

She is certain[ly] very clever, in a doubtful sense of the word.

It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment. If you pretend to be blind and dumb to this demand, you feign being blind and deaf to yourself This way you will never reach the knowledge of the heart. The knowledge ofyour heart is how your heart is. From a cunning heart you will know cunning. From a good heart you will know goodness. So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and evil. You ask, "What? Should I also live evil?

His cunning gaze assesses the situation as if he's already considered three ways to destroy everyone present.

Irene had no objection to stealing a good strategy, any more than to stealing a good book.

Youth may outrun the old, but not outwit.

Presidents may run for office on ideological platforms and promised policies, but their presidency is actually defined by the encounter between fortune and virtue, between the improbable and the unexpected—the thing that neither their ideology nor their proposals prepared them for—and their response. The president's job is to anticipate what will happen, minimize the unpredictability, then respond to the unexpected with cunning and power.

He once starved a woman to the brink of death, trying to break her. Poetic justice, he reflected.

Ooo." Hugh sucked the air in, narrowing his eyes. "Mean. I like mean.

His Furriness, the Long-term Planner.

Cookies aren't gonna cut it. Do you know any lion hunters who bait their traps with cookies?

With the characteristic cunning of true love, she was already manipulating the future.

But jealousy is a dreadful thing, Jessica. It is the most natural to us of the really wicked passions and it goes deep and envenoms the soul. It must be resisted with every honest cunning and with the deliberate thinking of generous thoughts, however abstract and empty these may seem in comparison with that wicked strength... There is no merit, Jessica, in a faithfulness which is poison to you and captivity to him.

I need nothing, he told himself with the cunning pride of those with a calling for solitude.

A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.