Quotes About Sly

From out of nowhere, she had an image of some poor human in a FedEx Office branch getting an eyeful and a half of the mostly naked fallen angel. Without warning, she started to laugh so hard, tears came to her eyes. The good kind of tears, that was. And as she gave herself up to the angel's ridiculousness, Lass just say there on the couch, staring up at Melrose Place, a sly, quiet smile on his beautiful, deranged face. What an angel he was, she thought to herself. A total angel.

Without warning, she started to laugh so hard, tears came to her eyes. The good kind of tears, that was. And as she gave herself up to the angel's ridiculousness, Lass just sat there on the couch, staring up at Melrose Place, a sly, quiet smile on his beautiful, deranged face. What an angel he was, she thought to herself. A total angel.

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. It's always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact it's so supple and sly.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Americans from other regions, she wrote, described them "as sly, grinding, selfish, and tricking. The Yankees… will avow these qualities themselves with a complacent smile, and boast that no people on earth can match them at over-reaching in a bargain." It was a curious kind of vanity, she observed; if you listened to a Yankee describe himself, "you might fancy him a god—though a tricky one.

Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough.

You could never be sure how much of it was acting, for he was sly as the devil, and not above using his arts on those he loved.

The malicious have a dark happiness.

He was full of sly caution and clumsy recklessness. He

That was the sly, ruinous thing about motherhood, the thing that twisted your insides with guilt and made you change your mind and lower your standards: giving in was so damned easy. It

That was the sly, ruinous thing about motherhood, the thing that twisted your insides with guilt and made you change your mind and lower your standards: giving in was so damned easy.

And of course there are the people whose energy fields are too strong," he said with a sly look at Rob. "You know, the people you agree with even when you don't know why. The ones that put you under a spell with their charisma-their energy just knocks you out.

But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.

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.

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

We'll, that's an evil smile... Like

We'll, that's an evil smile...

the sly smile hides the broken heart

March felt the same sly, taunting, knowing spark leap out of his eyes, as he turned his head aside, and fall into her soul

I'll go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?

I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?