Sly Quotes

89 Sly quotes by 79 unique authors

There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile. — Honore de Balzac
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Routine is worry's sly assassin. — Leif Enger
Although we often hear that data speak for themselves, their voices can be soft and sly — Frederick Mosteller
Ryan Alvanos is an offbeat, insanely inventive singer-songwriter who sneaks up on you with a sly wit and subtle power. — Steve Morse
The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near… — Edna O'Brien
I'm sometimes called a 'documentary photographer' but... a man operating under that definition could take a sly pleasure in the disguise. Very often I'm doing… — Walker Evans

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