Crafty Quotes
52 quotes by 46 authors
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I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of…
— Camille Claudel
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How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and…
— William Butler Yeats
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Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or…
— Joseph Hall
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A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . . . . Learned…
— James Madison
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Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in…
— John Brown
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At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind.…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes,…
— Anne Frank
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It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!
— January Jones
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My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!
— Angela Kinsey
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It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty,…
— Stephen Root
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We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is…
— Ahad Ha'am
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That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid…
— Pope Leo XIII
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It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.
— Osamu Dazai
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Which I think is great. I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run by Jewish people.…
— Michael Ray
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the…
— Akio Morita
Who Wrote These Crafty Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 52 Crafty Quotes, led by these top contributors: