Sly Quotes
89 quotes by 81 authors
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
— Honore de Balzac
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Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice,…
— Georges Bernanos
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A too explicit elucidation in education destroys much of the pleasure of learning. There should be room for sly hinters, masters of suggestion.
— Theodore Roethke
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There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon…
— Mark Twain
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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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Rock 'n' roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written, for the most part, by cretinous goons. And, by means of its…
— Frank Sinatra
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Zeus Is Dead is full of laugh-out-loud moments, lashings of sly wit, moan-worthy puns, and a complex, fast-paced storyline. There aren't very many humorous fantasy…
— Jody Lynn Nye
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Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style…
— Christine Schutt
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
— Barry White
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This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We…
— Ken Kesey
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The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession…
— Steven Pressfield
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The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him,…
— James F. Cooper
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In politics, Bugs Bunny always beats Daffy Duck. Daffy's always going berserk, jumping up and down, yelling. Bugs's got that sly smile, like he always…
— Jeff Greenfield
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Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do…
— Ray Bradbury
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Lysley Tenorio is a writer of sly wit and lively invention—these are stories bursting with wonders (from monster movies and leper colonies, to faith-healers and…
— Peter Ho Davies
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What helps most is remembering that such a cry or attack or sly blow is a reflection of that other person’s inner state; it is…
— Stephanie Dowrick
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Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so…
— Vladimir Bukovsky
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Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or…
— Napoleon Hill
Who Wrote These Sly Quotes
81 authors contributed a total of 89 Sly Quotes, led by these top contributors: