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Quotes About Cunning

Coyote never loses. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?
~ Patricia Briggs
He is very good at blending in, my father-in-law. But don't mistake him for anything but a ruthless bastard.
~ Patricia Briggs
Coyote never loses, Coyote told me. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?
~ Patricia Briggs
A detective uncovers the rebellion. Isn't that what sin is? Same with murder - the cunning, ugly ordinary mutiny of it?
~ Unknown
Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.
~ Patrick Marber
Richard and his senior executives now devised a cunning strategy, which they outlined in a series of emails. If the true personality of oxycodone was misunderstood by America's doctors, the company would not correct that misunderstanding. Instead, they would exploit it.
~ Unknown
No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
When necessity demands it, I'm an excellent liar. Not the noblest of skills, but useful.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp! I
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I learned that the best way to stay safe is to let your enemy's think you cant be hurt".
~ Patrick Rothfuss
fewer wits than tits,
~ Patrick Rothfuss
your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Con men and tricksters run the world. Rascals rule. And do you know why? because they are hungier than we are. because they know what they want. because they believe in life more than we do.
~ Paul Auster
In stories of the good and bad it's only the good who are subject to dreadful luck, mischance and blundering. The bad are always sharp and act with discipline, have cunning plans only just thwarted in the nick of time. The evil are always on the cusp of winning ways.
~ Paul Hoffman
Maybe he's not drunk. Maybe he's ill,' she said. 'He's drunk,' Otto said. 'Come along to bed.' 'How do you know?' 'Don't shout.' 'Can't you leave room for doubt? Maybe he's had an epileptic fit! A heart attack! You're so full of cunning, catching everyone out . . . the American form of wisdom! What if he is drunk! Isn't that bad enough!
~ Paula Fox
Implacable hate, patient cunning, and a sleepless refinement of device to inflict the extremest anguish on an enemy, these things are evil; and, although venial in a slave are not to be forgiven in a tyrant; although
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
beware, whilst you assume the softness of the dove, to forget not the cunning of the serpent.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
El punto medio de la historia le obligaba a luchar con tres elecciones en apariencia imposibles: confiar en un cocodrilo, saltar al río sin protección alguna, o enfrentarse a sus propios perros, sedientos de sangre.
~ Peter Guber
Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”
~ Genesis 12:13
“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
~ Genesis 25:31
Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
~ Genesis 27:11
So Jacob went and got two goats and brought them to his mother, who made the tasty food his father loved.
~ Genesis 27:14
And Rebekah took the finest clothes in the house that belonged to her older son Esau, and she put them on her younger son Jacob.
~ Genesis 27:15