Quotes About Crafty

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.

Smush was a slight, crafty player who was good at slipping through defenses to attack the basket and playing tough, full-court defense.

If you're not cute, at least be clever.

He's as smooth as a fresh-laid turd and gives off the same smell.

Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.

Outrageous...that wilfully selfish tyranny of silence evolved by a crafty old ostrich of a world for its own well-being and comfort.

Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.

I am not a bad actor but a smart actor and I have exhausted my smartness now.

Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.

I might have been slight-but I was smart and cagey.

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

After that, I was craftier with my observation, kept my head down and my eyes ready to leap away. But he was craftier still. At least once a dinner he would turn and catch me before I could feign indifference. Those seconds, half seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moments in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my stomach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.

They look witless and dull, which lulls their enemies, but they are clever. They will remember your face.

After that, I was craftier with my observation, kept my head down and my eyes ready to leap away. But he was craftier still. At least once a dinner he would turn and catch me before I could feign indifference. Those seconds, half-seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my sotmach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.

So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed In serpent, inmate bad! and toward Eve Addressed his way: not with indented wave, Prone on the ground, as since; but on his rear, Circular base of rising folds, that towered Fold above fold, a surging maze! his head Crested aloft, and carbuncle his eyes; With burnished neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant: pleasing was his shape And lovely; never since of serpent-kind Lovelier…

We are a very crafty family.

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle.

It had been a clever deception from the very beginning.

I can never forget the indescribably crafty shadow that passed over Flatfish's face as he laughed at me, his neck drawn in. It resembled contempt, yet it was different: if the world, like the sea, had depths of a thousand fathoms, this was the kind of weird shadows which might be found hovering here and there at the bottom. It was a laugh that enabled me to catch a glimpse of the very nadir of adult life.

he was a sleekit, spying yadswiver

Women are sneaky.

Her expression was pleasant, but a trifle crafty, like Me Wolf at the window of the Three Pigs' house, asking to be let in.

Spirits are generally invisible, and therefore not easily detected. They are crafty and sly in their approach.

Bragg was obstinate yet without firmness, ruthless without enterprise, crafty yet without stratagem, suspicious, envious, jealous, vain, a bantam in success and a dunghill in disaster."15