Quotes About Sly

She's a lean vixen: I can see the ribs, the sly trickster's eyes, filled with longing and desperation, the skinny feet, adept at lies. Why encourage the notion of virtuous poverty? It's only an excuse for zero charity. Hunger corrupts, and absolute hunger corrupts absolutely

Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself.

Oh, she was good at those sidelong glances, and sharp as a tack.

Outrage alternated with a sweaty fear he had never before felt. Something, it seemed to him was being drained from him, leaving the body feeling like a very dry sponge, very light, completely at the mercy of sly toying gusts of wind.

gentle and innocent as wolves as tricky as a prince

Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.

A narrow Fellow in the GrassOccasionally rides—

Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

Tell him that I shan't interfere in any way! I shall, of course, but he will never know it, so you needn't scruple to say that, dearest!

The cayote is a long, slim, sick and sorry-looking skeleton, with a gray wolf-skin stretched over it, a tolerably bushy tail that forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsakenness and misery, a furtive and evil eye, and a long, sharp face, with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth. He has a general slinking expression all over. The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry.

Only once did McMurdo see him, a sly, little gray-haired rat of a man, with a slinking gait and a sidelong glance which was charged with malice.

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

Thorn looks scrawny, but he's wily, and as fast as a ferret.

Professional politics is a trade in which the sly outweigh the wise.

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

That's a shitty thing to do. It's almost catlike in its evilness." "See, your problem is you underestimate dogs. There's a reason many of us are let up on the couch, while they keep y'all in a zoo.

And you have lost none of your wickedness either.

She raised her arms away from her sides and looked at me. She smiled in that sly, subversive way she had—teasing, but also amused, and inviting the recipient of the smile to join in the amusement. "You're not going to search me?

On the sly, scoping for love.

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

Damn tricky cats!

It was turning into a sly, anti–free market statement, and irony irritated him. There was no place for irony in marketing: it made people want to look for deeper meaning. There was no place in marketing for that, either.

'Homefront' was written by Sylvester Stallone. He actually wrote it for himself, which is, for me, an amazing privilege: To be handed a script by Sly that he wrote for himself, that he asked me to do.