Canny Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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Teaching is the canny art of intellectual temptation
— Jerome Bruner
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Energy efficiency should be on the priority list for all home improvement work these days. Canny builders will be able to provide homeowners with energy…
— Sarah Beeny
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Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.
— Lord Mountbatten
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Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but…
— Gore Vidal
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We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines?…
— Joan Collins
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Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
— Jessica Savitch
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She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone…
— Stephen R. Lawhead
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He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer…
— Alain de Botton
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Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'." "Get stuffed," Bovril said, then giggled. "And it insults people," Telsa said. "How peculiar.
— Scott Westerfeld
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She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.
— Alex Shakar
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Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our…
— Norman Vincent Peale
Who Wrote These Canny Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Canny Quotes as follows: