Quotes About Crafty

Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.

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

I am a monstrous clever fellow.

More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!

By working one can bend fortune. She is fond of crafty men.

To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

But the world is all alike. Those that seem better than their neighbours, are only more artful.

Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference.

She becomes her father's star and only pupil for the simple reason that she alone, of all the family, sees what he knows: plants are willful and crafty and after something, just like people.

You've become a clever man.

If he is this good at acting crazy, it's because he is.

believed were some of his strongest: the work ethic to locate those homes, the social skills to negotiate with people ranging from rich lenders to working-class contractors to poor renters, and the desire to make money in crafty but fundamentally honest ways.

I am cunning folk, and can be no other.

Schmidt is a canny little kobold.

It was a smart move.

I've got a nice little crafty deal with the people in Barbados; 10 days out there teaching the locals how to play darts for an hour a day. Get paid for that as well.

Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal (Candler)

I saw a crow building a nest, I was watching him very carefully, I was kind of stalking him and he was aware of it. And you know what they do when they become aware of someone stalking them when they build a nest, which is a very vulnerable place to be? They build a decoy nest. It's just for you.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

I would describe my driving style as calm authority, but my wife would call it demented. In my defence I've got a clean licence so probably the best way to describe it is crafty.

Mephistopholese: But we, more cunning in our cares, Must take our joys before they fade.