Sly And Cunning Quotes & Sayings

The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him, a man who acts in corners, and avoids open and manly expositions of his course, calls blackguards gentlemen, and gentlemen folks, appeals to passions and prejudices rather than to reason, and is in all respects, a man of intrigue and deception, of sly cunning and management. — James F. Cooper

If a trade deficit is determined solely by rates of savings and investment, then the U.S. trade deficit will be impervious to a get-tough trade policy. Slapping higher tariffs on imports will only deprive foreigners of the dollars they would have earned by selling in the U.S. market. — Daniel T. Griswold

Was he he handsome?" she asked with a sly smirk.
"Very. He is still, I think."
"The devil, they say, goes about in finery."
"And if you believe Beelzebub is as cunning as he is attractive, then I think we have found him. — Nancy E. Turner

He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace. — Samuel Johnson

Figure out the WHY you want it and turn it into a desire and then and obsession! — Darren D.O. Connell

But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous. — Soren Kierkegaard

The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become. — Brian Tracy

What 'Twilight' gave me was years to consider how I wanted to work otherwise. — Ashley Greene

Every now and again I need to get away from everything. I'm quite a hidey-hole kind of a guy. — Jay Kay

In the United States there are sixteen-and-a-half square feet of mall space for every man, woman, and child. — Randy Alcorn

Even were the time to come when there would be neither poor nor rich, yet there will always be wise and stupid, sly and simple, for so there have ever been and ever will be. The strong man sets his foot on the neck of the weakling; the cunning man runs off with the simpleton's purse and sets the dunce to work for him. Man is a crooked dealer and even his virtue is imperfect. Only he who lies down never to rise again is wholly good. — Mika Waltari

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it. — Kim Gordon

To be enjoyable, an AI must put up a good fight but lose more often than win. It must make the player feel clever, sly, cunning, and powerful. It must make the player jump from his seat shouting, "Take that, you little shit! — Mat Buckland

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook. — George Crabbe

Disbelief held me down inside my footsteps, making my body heavy but my heart wild. — Markus Zusak

Leaders that wear the largest hats have few armies to attack a land so this leads them to be sly and cunning as they extend their hand. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The road to health is paved with good intestines! — Sherry A. Rogers

All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch. — Isaac Asimov

Style is luxury, and luxury is simply what makes you happy. — Deborah Needleman

Their kiss was gentle at first, and then she pressed him for more like she'd done before, but this time neither work nor pack members would intrude. His blood sizzled as he touched her lips with his tongue, but she hesitated to open up to him. He backed off just a little, unwilling to let it go. He felt the hesitation in her whole body - the desire there, but the concern too. Then, as if she was ready to throw caution to the wind, she parted her lips and touched her tongue to his. But there was nothing tentative about it. — Terry Spear

That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. On the contrary, it was he who had advocated it in the beginning, and the plan which Snowball had drawn on the floor of the incubator shed had actually been stolen from among Napoleon's papers. The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon's own creation. Why, then, asked somebody, had he spoken so strongly against it? Here Squealer looked very sly. That, he said, was Comrade Napoleon's cunning. He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. — George Orwell