Shrewd Quotes
66 Shrewd quotes by 60 unique authors
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I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
— Rod Stewart
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My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
— Rod Stewart
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his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I feel a whole country growing inside me, thousands of years, millions of people, stupid, crazy, shrewd people, and all of them me. I never…
— Peter S. Beagle
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I don’t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she…
— William Shakespeare
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King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.
— Robin Hobb
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I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts…
— John Gardner
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The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the…
— Theodore Dreiser
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I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at…
— Margaret Mitchell
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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
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Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
— Rex Stout
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Kids are so shrewd.
— Maurice Sendak
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A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.
— George Norman Douglas
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It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd…
— Jung Chang
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What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to…
— Jim Cramer
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A shrewd man has to arrange his interests in order of importance and deal with them one by one; but often our greed upsets this…
— François De La Rochefoucauld
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That's rlelay shrewd! Good to see the logic set out so well.
— Unknown Author
Who Wrote These Shrewd Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 66 Shrewd Quotes, led by these top contributors: