Quotes About Cunning

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Old foxes want no tutors.

He has more tongues in his head than some have teeth.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

Guile is the shield and spear of the oppressed.

Somehow, he'd snaked into her head and sunk his fangs into her brain, poisoning her with hope. A cruel trick.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

We're the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, but we eat the little bastards alive.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

Nonsense, said Graff. Ender always has plans within plans.

He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you admitted to being smart, there was no going back.

Remember, boy. From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From

The enemy may outgun us, but they will never outthink us.

Housecats is smart too. Smarter'n a dog or a mule. Folks thinks they ain't on account of you cain't learn em nothin, but what it is is that they won't learn nothin. They too smart.

The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure

Piper, beware, your end is near, The Adder's power dwindles. He writhes, he goes in mortal fear, Nothing his strength rekindles. Though you seek the Jay in country and town, No sword can wound him, no hound run him down, And when you think you'll succeed in your quest, You find that the bird has flown the nest.

There's more than one way to be smart. People like my dad assume that because they're smart about being evil bastards, they're smart about everything—

People like my dad assume that because they're smart about being evil bastards, they're smart about everything—" "And because they're smart at everything," Seth said, "that makes it okay for them to be evil bastards?

His defences were all in his wits and cunning, his very instincts of cunning, and when these were abeyance he seemed doubly naked and like a child, of unfinished, tender flesh, and somehow struggling helplessly