Quotes About Craftiness

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

Everything's an act. Everything's strategy.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Chanakya says that a person, who demands his rights, is greedy. A person, who places importance on beauty and make-up, is lustful. Foolish people by nature are not soft-spoken. Contrarily, persons who are frank and truthful do not have even an iota of cunning, deceit and craftiness.

If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.

there's one thing I'm good at, it's lying on my feet. It's sort of a gift I have.

What devilish things we do when we try to be clever.

I have played the fox, now I must play the cat of the fable.

He's the only man I ever knew who had rubber pockets so he could steal soup.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.

No fox is foxier than man!

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

Tell me, Muse, of the man of many wiles.

For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

I excel at pulling strings!" said Arachne. "I'm a spider!

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Behind closed doors, I'm a crafty person.

I always believe that when you're not courageous, you become cunning.