Quotes About Cunning

Be brave like a lion, cunning like a tortoise, wise like a serpent, immovable like a rock..., and... fear no evil... God is in You, with You.

A man one year elder to you is one cunning year elder to you.

Every man for himself and the Devil for all.

Women of about the age of fifty are often distrustful, and perhaps it is that very distrust and cunning that entangles them. If you care to hear them, I can tell you some particulars some day. I do not know whether all women become more serious in getting older, and then want to govern and correct their daughters, which they do in exactly the wrong way.

I have had to change the game to one that is a match of wits rather than brawn to give myself a fighting chance.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.

Nobody gets to be Queen of England by being loveable. You will have to play your cards right.

Une femme, si peu qu'elle soit pourvue de malice, n'a pas besoin qu'on lui en revende; elle a le magasin chez elle, avec tous les assaisonnements de malignes pratiques.

The enemy's ways are anything but original. He's been trapping people the same way since the beginning of time.

When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we call him an abomination. As with love, knowledge has its seasons.

What's he a mix of—fox with fox?

Few criminals were as cunning, clever, bold, or difficult to catch as a maniac with a mission.

Bizim kadar budala olmayanlar? ak?ll? saymay?z.

Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.

All I know is that I am excessively calculating, especially when I appear not to be.

You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

Help us, O Lord, to remember how often men do wrong through want of thought, rather than from lack of love; and how cunning are the snares that trip our feet.

bent forward, hugging his knees. 'Then I could see, too. The English, wriggling over the ground like maggots in meat, and the men behind me. George McClure came up with me, and Wallace and Ross on the other side, and we were walkin' still, one pace at a time, but faster and faster, seein' the sassenaches breaking before us.' There was a dull boom off to the right;

My best asset to my game is my IQ. I play the game thinking the game first.

I may not be the most athletic, but I understand the game.

Some dogs are escape artists.

Los esclavos, más que nadie, conocemos el arte de la hipocresía.