Wily Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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PhD, MFA, self-taught—the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face…
— Alexander Chee
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Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and…
— Rich Hall
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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God. Start thinking and pretty soon…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed…
— Ronald Reagan
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Oh Satan you're a wily one.
— Craig Ferguson
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Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.
— Bill Bryson
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But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas
— Charles Dickens
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Weary of wily politicians who say one thing and do another, voters and advocacy groups insist presidential contenders commit to the cause du jour in…
— Mark McKinnon
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There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds; Tools of the wily Fetisheer, To fright the fools his…
— Richard Burton
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'The will of the nation' is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
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If it is true that God is not anywhere in the world | Then the wily General had the scriptures were composed of
— Mak_786
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We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. Weget through the Car Crash Agealive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes,…
— Garrison Keillor
Who Wrote These Wily Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Wily Quotes as follows: