Guile Quotes

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And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and… — Abraham Lincoln
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be… — Elihu Root
Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This… — Oliver E. Williamson
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 of God. You must flee… — Ignatius of Antioch
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was… — Benjamin Harvey Hill
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own… — Kate Chopin
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, patient… — Jack Vance
Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him youâ€™re as cute as a button, flash… — Nancy Milford
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. Instead… — Henry Hazlitt
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal… — Sarah Hall
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no… — Alex Shoumatoff
The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two… — Kevin Myers
Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared. — Heinrich Heine
For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile. — Rupert Brooke
Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile. — Minnie Driver
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men. — Aristophanes
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. — Carter Heyward
What is childlike humility? Itâ€™s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda. — Todd Burpo
..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn… — Paul Laurence Dunbar

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