Quotes About Cunning

The Marquis de Carabas always had a plan, and he always had a fallback plan; and beneath these plans he always had a real plan, one that he would not even let himself know about, for when the original plan and the fallback plan had both gone south.

A veces, los más grandes estúpidos son más astutos que los que se ríen de ellos.

Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.

Not all of us can be as bold as Jaime, but there are other ways to win wars.

Grandmother,' Margaery said, 'mind your words, or what will Sansa think of us?' 'She might think we have some wits about us. One of us, at any rate.

I much prefer angry and stupid to composed and cunning.

When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in: the jackals and the vultures and the feral dogs.

All his life Tyrion had prided himself on his cunning, the only gift the gods had seen fit to give him, and yet this seven-times-damned she-wolf Catelyn Stark had outwitted him at every turn. The

Irgalom – gondolta Theon, miután Luwin ismét lemaradt-, aljas egy csapda. Túl sokat adsz bel?le, és gyengének tartanak, túl keveset, és szörnyetegnek.

poison was regarded as a coward's weapon, and lacking in honor).

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Women and foxes, being weak, are distinguished by superior tact.

Set a thief to catch a thief.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

lukavstvo ide uz bogatstvo; ono mu i prethodi i prati ga dovijeka.

He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.

He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance against a man with a club. He had learned the lesson, and in all his after life he never forgot it. That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

For the last time in his life he allowed passion to usurp cunning and reason

The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.