Quotes About Crafty

'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

A bit lazy, perhaps. But crafty

What's your status? she asked him. Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours? Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

What's your status?" she asked him. "Healthy, wealthy, and wise. What's yours?" "Ha. Mean, crafty, and rude.

It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.

I feel like I'm a really artsy person. I love to tie-dye shirts and bake and just do nerdy and fun stuff.

What the devil's wrong with devious? Devious gets the job done, doesn't it?

the devil had long nimble fingers.

Il était malin, celui qui a inventé ce truc-là

I am a pickpocket, not a burglar.

In the government of the sage,He keeps their hearts vacuous,Fills their bellies,Weakens their ambitions,And strengthens their bones,He always causes his people to be without knowledge [cunning] or desire,And the crafty to be afraid to act.

A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted, not on himself, but on others, the pretext of his attack. He thus engages the world as a partisan in his quarrel, and dignifies his private hate, by giving it the air of disinterested resentment.

The smart cat doesn't let on that he is.

How daintily the butterfly Flits to the spider's lace Entranced by glimm'ring silver strings Entwined with glist'ning grace. How craftily the spider speaks And whispers, 'All is well,' Caresses it with poison'd feet And sucks it to a shell

a 'dodgy politician' and a 'cynical manipulator'. 'He's clever enough to deceive people without them knowing it

liberally equipped with one-way pockets

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar . . . . 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.

I should learn to be more craftily evasive, I thought: a bad evasion is tantamount to telling the truth.

I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer.

Sergio Mora is a Rubik's Cube. You have to figure him out. He's crafty and I have the utmost respect for him.

I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little. He meant a liar.

You're a slick son of a bitch, I'll hand