Shrewd Quotes

66 Shrewd quotes by 60 unique authors

With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about… — Jonathan Culler
Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did it without ever… — David Foster Wallace
Let us face reality. The framers (of the Constitution) have simply been too shrewd for us. They have outwitted us. They designed separate institutions that… — James MacGregor Burns
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members. — W. Somerset Maugham
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of… — Lewis Mumford
If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you? — Katie Price
My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy. — C. Thomas Howell
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. — Robert A. Heinlein
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd. — Robert Hugh Benson
When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions. — Henry Tamburin
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius. — Charles Horton Cooley
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We shouldn't have to be burdened with all the technicalities that come up from time to time with shrewd, smart lawyers interpreting what the laws… — Dan Quayle
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
My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight. — Rod Stewart
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
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
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
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
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
King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now. — Robin Hobb
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
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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