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Quotes About Craftiness

You sparkle with larceny.
~ Wilson Mizner
The one benefit of maturity is discovering just how crafty you can be.
~ Christopher Fowler
Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
~ la rochefoucauld v
The elders teach us: be a trickster, and you will survive.
~ Laila Lalami
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
~ Aristophanes
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss }
~ Niels Henrik Abel
The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry.
~ Osmanli proverb
Then he removed a pick from his back pocket and, using a thick hairpin for a torsion bar, jiggled the dead bolt open. He whistled "Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho" as he worked.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Old foxes want no tutors.
~ Thomas Fuller
Truly that aspect of cunning is illustrious and far removed from all reproach, whose deeds are called by the Greek expression strategemata, because they can scarcely be suitably expressed by a (single Latin) term.
~ Lawrence Freedman
One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
~ Jane Austen
Kurnazl??a yak?n her ?ey basitliktir.
~ Jane Austen
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth.
~ Daniel P. Friedman
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
You always did like to run things, never mind your crafty knack for making everyone believe that somebody else was in charge.
~ Janny Wurts
It was loopholery at its very best.
~ Jasper Fforde
Listo es el que hace listezas.
~ Tony DiTerlizzi
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
~ Stendhal
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
~ John Philpot Curran
Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Cardan is clever, but it's not a nice kind of cleverness.
~ Holly Black