Guile is the shield and spear of the oppressed.

Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button,…

— Nancy Milford

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,…

— Jack Vance

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

— Minnie Driver

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse.…

— Oliver E. Williamson

In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling.…

— Henry Hazlitt

“She’d say this for him: He had no guile.”

— Sandhya Menon

“In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive…

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is…

— Torquato Tasso

What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,…

— Edmund Spenser

But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice…

— Ignatius of Loyola

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his…

— Kate Chopin