Guile Quote by Dan Simmons

Life is impermanent and in the face of that impermanence, cavort! Look death in the eye, tell him you’re as cute as a button,…

— Nancy Milford

But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice…

— Ignatius of Loyola

What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware, As to descry the crafty cunning train, By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,…

— Edmund Spenser

“Guile is the shield and spear of the oppressed.”

— Thornton Wilder

Women have tongues of craft, and hearts of guile, They will, they will not; fools that on them trust; For in their speech is…

— Torquato Tasso

Our duty is to rise in the bright daylight, openly, beating the drums. The cause for which we are ready to give our necks…

— Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

I’m giving you that chance now. (Stryker) It’s too late. Too many centuries have passed. There was a time when I lived only to…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“In Your Early Years people Tell You, Correct You and Forgive You. But when you become an Adult, they Neither Correct you nor Forgive…

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“She’d say this for him: He had no guile.”

— Sandhya Menon

In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling.…

— Henry Hazlitt

Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse.…

— Oliver E. Williamson

To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile.

— Minnie Driver

Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,…

— Jack Vance

..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with…

— Paul Laurence Dunbar