Quotes About Craftiness

Trouble is, he wasn't clever enough to pretend to be a little less clever.

Halt was about to indulge in what he called 'creative documentation'. Horace called it forgery.

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Some have in readiness so many tales and stories, as there is nothing they would insinuate, but they can wrap it into a tale; which serveth both to keep themselves more in guard, and to make others carry it with more pleasure. It is a good point of cunning, for a man to shape the answer he would have, in his own words and propositions; for it makes the other party stick the less.

Los trucos más brillantes han sido siempre los más sencillos. Firmin Richard.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels.

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

AMBIDEXTROUS, adj. Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

In Caverna lies were an art and everybody was an artist, even young children.

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today. False teachers use high-sounding words that seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

Deliver me, O Lady, from all evil: and from the infernal enemy defend me. Against me he hath drawn his bow: and in his craftiness he hath laid snares for me. Restrain his evil power: and powerfully crush his craft. Turn back his iniquity on his own head: and let him speedily fall into the pit which he hath made. But we will rejoice in thy service: and we will glory in thy praise.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

the demon virtues — patience, deception, quick hands, craftiness, an for the mistakes of others

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Wayne held back a smile, tucking it into his pocket for later use.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

You must not think, sir, to catch old birds with chaff.

Old foxes want no tutors.

lukavstvo ide uz bogatstvo; ono mu i prethodi i prati ga dovijeka.

FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.