"We shall perish by guile just as we…" — Aeschylus

More Guile Quotes

This quote is filed under Guile Quotes, one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and… — Abraham Lincoln
• When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of… — Elihu Root
• Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise,… — Unknown Author
• Now is the time for guts and guile, — Elizabeth Taylor
• For some are in the habit of carrying about the name in wicked guile, while they still practice things unworthy… — Ignatius of Antioch
• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a… — Unknown Author
• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response… — Kate Chopin
• Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant… — Jack Vance
• Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as… — Nancy Milford
• In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order… — Henry Hazlitt
• All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow.… — Sarah Hall
• Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten… — Alex Shoumatoff

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