Quotes About Sly

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

The duplicity of Mrs. Pink in having concealed the existence of a husband was enthusiastically condemned by one and all. She was variously described as sly, deceitful, and even—ultimate reproach—as no better than she should be.

Who knew grief could be so goddamned physical, a dark and sly trickster that blindsided you when you weren't even thinking about loss,

Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

A man one year elder to you is one cunning year elder to you.

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

He says, "You have a fox in there.

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

The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that was the power against which his own would be measured.

Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.

Tell me about this Wizard Howl of yours. He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything. Indeed? Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies. What do you mean, vices? I was just describing Howl. He comes from another world entirely, you know, called Wales, and I refuse to believe he's dead!

Tell me of this wizard Howl of yours. Sophie's teeth chattered, but she said proudly, He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to do anything. Indded? asked Abdullah. Strange that you should speak so proudly such a list of vices, most loving of ladies. What do you mean, vices? Sophie asked angrily. I was just describing Howl!

Tell me of this Wizard Howl of yours. Sophie's teeth chattered but she said proudly, He's the best wizard in Ingary or anywhere else. If he'd only had time, he would have defeated that djinn. And he's sly and selfish and vain as a peacock and cowardly, and you can't pin him down to anything.

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

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

We're ruthless bastards and we always play dirty.

You know what just seeing him did to me." "I know. Lois, he just isn't that ominous. Evil, but not ominous. Sly, but not prescient. Once he is off balance, he will stay off balance, and fall heavily. And the law will gather him in.

In the fam'd memoirs of a thousand years, Written by Crafticant, and published By Parpaglion and Co., (those sly compeers Who rak'd up ev'ry fact against the dead,) In Scarab Street, Panthea, at the Jubal's Head.

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

was crooked as a sidewinder rattlesnake. "So what

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young. Sometimes very young children look at the old, and a look passes between them, conspiratorial, sly and knowing. It's because neither are human to the middling ones, those in their prime, as they say, like beef.

In those days she had been a sly-eyed little party, much younger than the crowd which had grown up with Minnie, but she had strung along with them and, when Jake Bernadine's first wife had given up in despair, had married and mothered him, enjoyed his strange pictures, and had children by him. Just

Time to do what he did best - plot dastardly acts.

Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs