Wiles Quotes
21 quotes by 18 authors
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A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly…
— George Washington
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Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
— George Washington
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Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
— Aeschylus
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Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
— Mason Cooley
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I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round…
— Teresa of Avila
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A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
— William Wordsworth
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No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to…
— Yvonne Rainer
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It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the…
— Syncletica of Alexandria
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One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.
— Ogden Nash
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
— Aristophanes
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Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
— William Blake
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Satan is a "roaring lion, [who] walketh about, seeking whom he may devour." And he will devour us unless we "put on the whole armour…
— Sheri L. Dew
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Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.
— Joseph Delaney
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And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
— William Blake
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To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters…
— Fernando Pessoa
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There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side…
— Maya Angelou
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Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating…
— Karen Abbott
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Let me distract this one. I have picked up a few womanly wiles over the years.
— Donna Noble
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VALUE OF FRIENDS Give me kind friends, true friends in need, Who don no idle, winning wiles, And who will be true friends, indeed. If…
— Bhaboo
Who Wrote These Wiles Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 21 Wiles Quotes as follows: