Quotes About Cunning

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

His bite will be cruel, but his tongue cunning, His breath seductive, but his grip deadly. The Dragon knows only hunger, never sated, Only thirst, never quenched. —Song of Venda

I wondered if she was truly Rahtan. Yes, she was skilled, but she didn't exactly possess brawn—even if she had managed to overtake me and slam me up against the wall. But juggling? Riddles? Her age. Her poise and demeanor was that of a cynical tested soldier, but her appearance—she was young, younger than me, I was certain. Her black hair fell in thick, long waves, and her hands were delicate, her fingers more suited for a piano than a sword.

Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold.

You must be every bit as careful and cunning, and above all, you must use every ounce of patience you possess. You must not be reckless with your own life nor with those who are with you. This beast will turn and kill you.

You've got to admit, slick, you got a skill for avoiding the devil." "That just means that now the devils out there, looking for me...and that devil is very mad.

Son un saco de maldades y un costal de malicias.

You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.

The passage revolved around arguably the first black ops mission in recorded literature. Odysseus is trapped in the cave of Polyphemus. Faced with certain death, he pioneers an escape through a textbook act of misinformation, lying his way to freedom.

taking a roundabout route in an effort to disorient the Amorite.

And what is our trickery, shrewdness, courage, obduracy? What else but - mind!

No fox is foxier than man!

Under the shadow of swords, any plan is good.

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

What is she like? Evanjalin of the Monts?' he asked. Finnikin thought for a moment. 'Strong. In here,' he said, thumping his chest twice. 'Humbling. Ruthless. Cunning. She can love people with a fierceness that I have not seen before.' He smiled when he realized he was talking too much. 'And she looks like a Mont woman, so of course she's very beautiful.

He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed.

Aí é que você se engana, Nhonhoso: eu não sou bom. Sou é muito vagaroso nas maldades.

4. The Evil Sorceress who finds Hansel and Gretel plans to a. feed them her leftovers forever b. make them clean her house all day long c. hold them hostage until their parents pay for them d. eat them

The life of comparison is deadly. One is always more than or less than and it is based upon a brief proof which tends to be seen as emotional but is in fact bereft of emotion. Comparison is so subtle a force it exposes itself in the guise of emotion to protect its own cunning from being seen as the judgmental emphasis it is.

It's lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We'd all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.

She'd have the two of them eating out of her shoe. I've watched her in action, but I could never get away with it. And, I console myself, being cute hasn't made her all that happy.

It's better to be tough than strong, better to be clever than intelligent," he said, repeating a family maxim. "I was tough and