Top 100 Wiles Quotes
#1. What a delight you are! Blessed with the ripe sweetness of a woman, yet as green and untutored as any girl." He made her sound, she realized with bemusement, as charming and pleasing with her cowardice as any courtesan with her wiles.
Christina Dodd
#2. Finaly, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
-Ephesians 6:10-11
Anonymous
#3. A man captivated by wiles was only captivated for a time, whereas a man won by simplicity would be won forever - if he, himself, were worth the winning.
Anthony Trollope
#4. 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
#5. I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.
Orhan Pamuk
#6. Children use all their wiles to get their way with adults. Adults do the same with children.
Mason Cooley
#7. And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus two by two we wrangle and blunder about the earth, And that body we share we may not spare; but the Gods have need of mirth.
James Branch Cabell
#8. 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, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.
Ezra Taft Benson
#9. Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ... the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.
George Washington
#10. Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.
Joseph Delaney
#11. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
John Milton
#12. I spent the rest of that day brainstorming. How do you catch a very old, very alert tiger by surprise? Use his weaknesses: food, feminine wiles, poetry, and over-protectiveness. The poor guy didn't stand a chance.
Colleen Houck
#13. Oh, I see. I'm the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!"
She poked him in the chest.
"Stop that."
"No. I'm beguiling you.
Leigh Bardugo
#14. So spake Israel's true king, and to the Fiend
Made answer meet, that made void all his wiles.
So fares it, when with truth falsehood contends.
John Milton
#15. 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 them.
Karen Abbott
#16. Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
William Blake
#17. What is important to me, is to make a girl look better. To really make the most of all her womanly wiles. It's all about accentuating a waist, perking up a bust line, rounding out hips; things that just make you look in the mirror and say, "I look awesome."
Byron Lars
#18. But what mother was ever proof against the winning wiles, the ingenious evasions, or the tranquil audacity of the miniature men and women who so early show themselves accomplished Artful Dodgers?
Louisa May Alcott
#19. For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.
Billy Graham
#20. 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
#21. Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
Aristophanes
#22. 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 [or power] of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." (See 1 Peter 5 and Ephesians 6)
Sheri Dew
#23. 11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. * 12For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Anonymous
#24. The wiles of a veteran turned the younger man's own gift of speed against him.
Geraldine Brooks
#25. We (women) are a powerful force, but it is not our fists that propel us, it is our minds and wiles.
Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
#26. 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 are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful.
Maya Angelou
#27. Using your feminine wiles to lead my familiar astray. If all you want is dangerous sex, I can give that to you better than he can, and I won't break your heart afterward. - Al to Rachel
Kim Harrison
#28. It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.
Allison Tolman
#29. Who can describe
Women's hypocrisies! their subtle wiles,
Betraying smiles, feign'd tears, inconstancies!
Their painted outsides, and corrupted minds,
The sum of all their follies, and their falsehoods.
Thomas Otway
#30. I love the role I'm playing in 'Conan.' I'm enjoying making the film tremendously. It's very physically demanding. You know, Conan is 28 years younger than me and a big dude, so I have to depend upon my wolf-like wiles to defeat this young bull.
Stephen Lang
#31. I'm sorry about dragging you into my evil schemes with my masculine wiles. I didn't realise, um, the force of my own wiliness. I don't actually use my wiles a lot.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#32. I had to promise to look him up if I was ever in the City of Angels." She winked to Uncle Bob. "He liked my voice." "Mom," Amber said, utterly appalled. "You used your feminine wiles on a man you don't even know." Cookie smiled. "That's what they're for, honey. Eat your salad.
Darynda Jones
#33. Stop, Morgian. Your wiles cannot avail you now.' He turned to the High King and said, 'The hurt this woman has done me, I readily forgive. It is for the harm that she has caused others that she is to be judged.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#34. Lord, help me to put on the full spiritual armor You have provided for me so that I can "stand against the wiles of the devil" every day. In Jesus' name I pray.
Stormie O'martian
#35. 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
#36. Holmes had no sisters, and a man who grows up without sisters has few defences against those wiles, those innocent wiles of body, speech and motion, with which nature has provided young females in its blind desire to propagate the species.
Michael Kurland
#37. Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look
William Gurnall
#38. The solid, solid universe
Is pervious to Love;
With bandaged eyes he never errs,
Around, below, above.
His blinding light
He flingeth white
On God's and Satan's brood,
And reconciles
By mystic wiles
The evil and the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#39. 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 devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action.
Syncletica Of Alexandria
#40. Little did he know, I possessed no feminine wiles. Only the willies and the hibby jibbies.
Penny Reid
#41. PRAYER Lord, help me to put on the full spiritual armor You have provided for me so that I can "stand against the wiles of the devil" every day. In Jesus' name I pray. GO DEEPER
Stormie O'martian
#42. Wiles and deceit are female qualities.
Aeschylus
#43. O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden's hold,
a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.
Torquato Tasso
#44. Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.
Tyne O'Connell
#46. I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.
Deborah Wiles
#47. The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you
Deborah Wiles
#48. it takes courage to look life in the eye and say yes to the messy glory
Deborah Wiles
#49. Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.
Deborah Wiles
#50. ... Turning the simple 'handjob' into something exquisitely erotic seems quite a reasonable goal."
Louise to Acacia, re her husbands immediate future, in Explicitly Sexy
Martin Rinehart
#51. Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.
Andrew Wiles
#52. Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve.
Andrew Wiles
#53. The only way I could relax was when I was with my children.
Andrew Wiles
#54. I had played sports all my life, and I thought that was going to be the way. But I saw where the potential in football was going to end. When it comes to decision-making, I just follow my gut at the end of the day. And if I don't, I get in trouble. I wanted to become a filmmaker.
Jason Wiles
#55. I feel sorry for anybody who would let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face.
- Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer
Deborah Wiles
#56. Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
Andrew Wiles
#57. wondering if this was how I was going to end up: eccentric and alone.
Pauline Wiles
#58. 'Lost' did alright, you know. Not that I didn't get into it - I just never watched enough of them; but the uphill battle is that you've got to stay tuned.
Jason Wiles
#59. When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.
Jason Wiles
#60. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
Andrew Wiles
#61. Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.
Andrew Wiles
#62. There's also a sense of freedom. I was so obsessed by this problem that I was thinking about if all the time - when I woke up in the morning, when I went to sleep at night, and that went on for eight years.
Andrew Wiles
#63. Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
Andrew Wiles
#64. I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
Andrew Wiles
#65. I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Andrew Wiles
#66. It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they would enjoy solitary confinement and internal exile too much.
Will Wiles
#67. I was always useless at flirting, and simply did not know what needed to be done in order to snare my target... I always ended up resorting to jokes, and most men don't like funny women. They like to do the jokes.
Joan Sims
#68. Uncle Edisto always said, "Every ending is a new beginning.
Deborah Wiles
#69. But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library.
Andrew Wiles
#71. A real friend sees past the trouble and into your heart.
Deborah Wiles
#72. This is how it works. Everything is connected. Every choice matters. Every person is vital, and valuable, and worthy of respect.
Deborah Wiles
#73. We've lost something that's been with us for so long, and something that drew a lot of us into mathematics. But perhaps that's always the way with math problems, and we just have to find new ones to capture our attention.
Andrew Wiles
#74. I think on 'Third Watch' that I was the comic relief on a lot of that. I mean, I definitely had dark moments, but people tended to think he was funny even if the character himself wasn't having a fun time.
Jason Wiles
#75. I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest.
Andrew Wiles
#77. Sometimes you just need a book near you and you can't explain why.
Deborah Wiles
#78. Nothing snubs quite like a cat. What evolutionary purpose did it serve, this inherent disdain, this artful blanking?
Will Wiles
#79. I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles
#80. I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.
Jane Bowles
#81. There are always scary things happening in the world. There are always wonderful things happening. And it's up to you to decide how you're going to approach the world ... how you're going to live in it, and what you're going to do.
- Jo Ellen Chapman
Deborah Wiles
#82. I like to pic-a-nic more than a bee likes to bumble.
Deborah Wiles
#83. Life is full of surprises, but the biggest one of all is learning what it takes to handle them.
Deborah Wiles
#84. It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years.
Andrew Wiles
#85. I was woken by a shell-burst in the trench of sleep. Heart skipping, with eyes fighting light, my thoughts sprang up like a field of starlings startled by a farmer's gunshot, a thousand separate, autonomous specks that swirled into a single united black shape.
Will Wiles
#86. Britain and America couldn't agree on shoe sizing, dress sizing, weight, distance or temperature measurements, but on the scale of breasts, we were of one voice.
Pauline Wiles
#87. I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did.
Andrew Wiles
#88. There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today.
Andrew Wiles
#89. The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis.
Andrew Wiles
#90. I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
Jason Wiles
#91. The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.
Andrew Wiles
#92. That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
Andrew Wiles
#93. I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal.
Andrew Wiles
#94. I don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof.
Andrew Wiles
#95. I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.
Jason Wiles
#96. Mathematics ... is a bit like discovering oil ... But mathematics has one great advantage over oil, in that no one has yet ... found a way that you can keep using the same oil forever.
Andrew Wiles
#99. I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.
Andrew Wiles
#100. However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
Andrew Wiles
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