Adroit Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

Some golfers blast their ball from traps, With one adroit explosion, But others, out in ten perhaps, Depend upon erosion. — Richard Armour
There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent. — William Hazlitt
There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. — Martin Luther
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,… — Charles Caleb Colton
If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control.… — Calvin Coolidge
The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to… — Nathan Myhrvold
Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their… — Charles Caleb Colton
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that… — Peter Kropotkin
Women intrinsically understand human dynamics, and that makes them unstoppable. Unfortunately, the average man is less adroit at fostering such rivalries, which is why most… — Chuck Klosterman
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
Is it not a strange blindness on our part to teach publicly the techniques of warfare and to reward with medals those who prove to… — Marquis de Sade
Conservatism stands on man's confessed limitations; reform on his indisputable infinitude; conservatism on circumstance; liberalism on power; one goes to make an adroit member of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants,… — Louis Untermeyer

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