Quotes About Cunning

But this left a very large question mark: Who was Chutsky, in fact, and how did I get his help? Did I need some cunning stratagem to bend him to my will, or would I have to resort to some form of the unprecedented uncomfortable unspeakable truth? The very thought of committing honesty made me tremble in every leaf and branch—it went against everything I had ever stood for. But there seemed no way out; I would have to be at least marginally truthful.

His beauty had left him without cunning

I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.

I'm an aggressive fighter, but I'm smart. I'm not going to play stupid.

Comprendí en los días que pasé con él que el malvado es, en verdad, un ser ruin que no tiene el valor de mirar a la cara a sus víctimas, que prefiere confiar a otros la odiosa tarea de infligir sufrimiento.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

More are taken in by love than by cunning.

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

Sometimes, sitting here in the dark, slowly slowly creating strategy, she wondered if she was only fooling herself to think her plans were clever.

I feel like Odysseus in Polyphemus's cave: "You will I eat last." To this Blumenfeld remarked on the telephone with a comforting quick wit: But Odysseus was not eaten, and it was Polyphemus who came to a bad end. […]

You know what lasts longer than beauty? Being smart.

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

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

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

How?d you get here?? I asked. She winked. ?You?re not the only ones who can steal cars. Or, in my case, get people to 'willingly? lend them.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

In fact, educated people can justify sins more easily than uneducated people can, because they are clever enough to rationalize their sins away.

the startling line in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, where Captain Hook is described: "The man isn't wholly evil; he has a thesaurus in his cabin.

She was learning that if she pretended to be weak and frightened, and dabbed at her eyes with a lacy handkerchief, she could turn aside all manner of pressing questions.

grinned. 'Xenophon taught me that victory is achieved by putting the thought of defeat into the heart of your enemy. To him goes the honour.

Maybe everyone was part con man. Maybe everybody was in the game, and Phil just knew better than anyone else how to play.

If you're not cute, at least be clever.

Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted out of the tunnel of his mouth.

At each sentence my hostess put her head forward, looking at me with an innkeeper's keen scrutiny, a happy compromise between the instinct of a police constable, the astuteness of a spy, and the cunning of a dealer.