Top 100 Shrewd Quotes
#1. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.
Jonathan Culler
#2. It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God's directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#3. If all you succeed in doing in life is getting rich by buying little pieces of paper, it's a failed life. Life is more than being shrewd in wealth accumulation.
Charlie Munger
#4. If you seem to have stumbled, think that it was fated to be so. Your heart is shrewd as well as faithful, and saw clearer than your eyes. For
J.R.R. Tolkien
#5. Was that a personal call, Cammie?" he asked with a shrewd glance. I had a brief moment of panic before composing myself. "Yes. It was my gynecologist. He wanted to discuss my latest pap smear. Do you want to know how the cells on my cervix are doing?
R.S. Grey
#6. No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.
Rex Stout
#8. What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.
Jim Cramer
#9. The shrewd hunt foxes,
the strong hunt lions,
but the mighty hunt elephants.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. Unveil a person's thoughts,
and you are shrewd.
Unveil a person's desires,
and you are wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.
W. Somerset Maugham
#12. She was a shrewd woman, and knew that the art of life is to know when to stop talking. What words have accomplished, too many words can undo. "Good-bye.
P.G. Wodehouse
#13. My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.
Mark Ruffalo
#14. Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
Heinlein Robert A.
#15. I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action.
Maggie Stiefvater
#16. Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his technical brilliance make him my all-time hero. You can't get a more complete cricketer than Sachin. He has everything that a cricketer needs to have
Rahul Dravid
#17. Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges and rhetorical subtleties used in conversation by those whose main aim in life was the achievement and maintenance of the shifgrethor relationship on a high level.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#18. I was shrewd like mauma. Even at ten I knew this story about people flying was pure malarkey. We weren't some special people who lost our magic. We were slave people, and we weren't going anywhere. It was later I saw what she meant. We could fly all right, but it wasn't any magic to it.
Sue Monk Kidd
#20. By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Adolf Hitler
#21. My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#22. Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California. He is a very shrewd man - he already has all of his sex scandals behind him.
David Letterman
#23. I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#24. A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Charles Horton Cooley
#25. The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less.
Michael Lewis
#26. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY
Eugene H. Peterson
#27. S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his perspectives about the way universities work, and his exploration of the culture of MIT is brilliant.
Paul E. Gray
#28. A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
Don DeLillo
#29. Anthony isn't half as shrewd as he thinks he is." "What about Natalie?" "Natalie's mine." "I got that, but Anthony won't. He seems attached." "Then I'll have to unattach him.
D.B. Reynolds
#31. The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
Jerome Bruner
#33. Quanah Parker. As the years went by he became a shrewd businessman, built a large house, and successfully managed his farm and ranch. He traveled all over the country, and went to Washington to ride in President Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural parade.
Dee Brown
#34. This one will be shrewd, I think, and shrewdness is a limitation on the mind. Shrewdness tells you what you must not do because it would not be shrewd.
John Steinbeck
#35. It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very shrewd but he didn't have human feeling.
Jung Chang
#36. Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. I'm sure the England selectors thought if they took me on and gave me the job, I'd want to run the show. They were shrewd, because that's exactly what I would have done.
Brian Clough
#38. The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it.
Jeremy Campbell
#40. I'll take a game of cards to stitchery any day. My brothers are shrewd, bordering on thieves when it comes to their cards - the best kind of teachers to have. Last
Mary E. Pearson
#41. They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.
Joshua Slocum
#42. Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#43. Then, I heard the pounding again - and worse, my whole bed shook violently. Someone was kicking it. Opening my eyes again, I turned and found myself staring into Yeva's shrewd dark eyes. If Sydney had met many dhampirs like Yeva, I could understand why she thought our race were minions of hell.
Richelle Mead
#44. He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#45. Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
John Brown
#46. Everything about me is pretty and a lot of it is shrewd. So I had a pretty shrewd idea what was going on.
Melody Malone
#47. My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
Rod Stewart
#48. Let me not be sentimental, let the distance in time give me humor and irony and a shrewd, if loving, eye.
Sylvia Plath
#49. Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#50. My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.'
Gore Vidal
#51. Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything.
Karen Russell
#52. Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
Jimmy Carter
#53. For My people are foolish, They know Me not; They are stupid children And have no understanding. They are shrewd to do evil, But to do good they do not know.
Jeremiah 4 22
#54. I never counted on you, lass. You are strong, honorable, clever, shrewd, beautiful, and resilient. You doona ever quit, and you doona ever give up. So why give up on me?
Donna Grant
#55. The disabilities of the people who came to him were established so young, in such delicate years, that their tender agonies were, by the time they arrived in his office, thickened into a stunned arrangement of expressions, deflections, and shrewd manipulations. No,
Elizabeth Strout
#56. If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?
Katie Price
#57. Hardship makes you strong.
Problems make you shrewd.
Critics make you brave.
Enemies make you wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#58. There is no doubt that Bronstein's shrewd understanding of chess psychology was crucial to his success. Without it, his impetuous style and technical flaws might have relegated him to a minor career.
Pal Benko
#59. The only person you can trust with a good idea is a fool; he will not know what to do with it. The last person you trust with a good idea is a shrewd person; he will take advantage of it better than you would.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#60. Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by scoffing at sentiment and principle, and whose political activity consists in attempts to gain popular support by cunning devices and shrewd manipulation.
Grover Cleveland
#61. Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful ...
Ritchie Blackmore
#62. By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.
John Dewey
#63. Who thus translated the Chickasaw title meaning "The Man"; which translation Ikkemotubbe, himself a man of wit and imagination as well as a shrewd judge of character, including his own, carried it one step further and anglicised it to "Doom.
William Faulkner
#64. I have a pretty reasonably shrewd idea of where we go from here," said Dirrp. "At least, a sort of a notion.
Charlie Jane Anders
#65. So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#66. Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all
the public and private Hope.
Tom Brokaw
#67. I was loved by a team of smart, shrewd, criminally-inclined vigilantes. But I was loved. If I denied that any longer, I was calling them all liars. And if I denied I was worthy of it, I was convincing myself they were delusional and stupid. I wasn't lying to myself anymore. Not about that.
C.D. Reiss
#68. When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.
Henry Tamburin
#69. King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.
Robin Hobb
#70. Doyle stokes in a thousand shrewd touches with no effort at all. Wonderful.
Rex Stout
#72. Despaired of any rest or contentment in a world grown too busy for beauty and too shrewd for dreams
H.P. Lovecraft
#73. For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?
Daniel Suarez
#74. Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. His face looked shrewd and wise, as if he knew many things, many of them not worth knowing.
E.B. White
#76. The odors of perfume were fanned out on the summer air by the whirling vents of the grottoes where the women hid like undersea creatures, under electric cones, their hair curled into wild whorls and peaks, their eyes shrewd and glassy, animal and sly, their mouths painted a neon red.
Ray Bradbury
#77. I had no money to start,
For Jack decreed in his pride:
The Caveman's wife didn't work -
It was his job to provide.
A brief reminder right here:
Let men believe they are shrewd,
But even women of old
Embroidered mittens for food.
Joyce Rachelle
#78. His decision suggests that an absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#79. He looked as though he knew how to take care of himself. There was a shrewd, buoyant air about him as he sat up, looked round and rubbed both front paws over his nose.
Richard Adams
#80. The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change when it is to their advantage.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#81. He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom.
Theresa Whistler
#82. Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.
Joe Queenan
#83. Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
Emily Dickinson
#84. The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.
Robert Hugh Benson
#86. The most successful prostitutes are invisible, because the sign of a prostitute's success is her absolute blending with the environment. She's so shrewd, she never becomes visible. She never gets in trouble. She has command of her life, and her clients.
Camille Paglia
#87. To attract the wise,
you have to be shrewd.
To attract the skilled,
you have to be talented.
To attract the creative,
you have to be ingenious.
To attract the great,
you have to be extraordinary.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#88. When Quiggin ingratiated himself with people - during his days as secretary to St. John Clarke, for example - he was far too shrewd to confine himself to mere flattery. A modicum of bullying was a pleasure both to himself and his patrons.
Anthony Powell
#89. Happy be who generous to relatives, to strangers kindly,
Indifferent to wicked, loving to good, shrewd in dealing be;
Who frank with the learned and courageous with enemy,
Ever humble with elders and stern with his wife does be.
[211] 12.3 Chanakya
Munindra Misra
#90. Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover ... refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.
Norman Vincent Peale
#91. Practice calling people by their names. Every year shrewd manufacturers sell more briefcases, pencils, Bibles, and hundreds of other items just by putting the buyer's name on the product. People like to be called by name. It gives everyone a boost to be addressed by name.
David J. Schwartz
#92. Male chauvinism is ... a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.
Michael Korda
#93. A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together
John Grisham
#94. Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.
Rebecca West
#95. I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
Rod Stewart
#96. These men represent the blend of state-of-the-art technology and shrewd old-school intelligence that makes our city as safe as anyplace on the planet.
Dick Wolf
#97. I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.
Michael Dirda
#98. But he was also shrewd instead of wise, mannerly instead of kind, and ambitious instead of strong. I
Amy Harmon
#99. If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
Henry Ward Beecher
#100. The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.
Bob Rae
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