Wily Quotes

#1. the wily Machiavelli had always believed that any clod could have the facts - having an opinion was an art.

Ashwin Sanghi

#2. I think the Internet is an awful lot like FM radio was when it broke out in the late '60s. It's kind of a wild and wily kind of format. They could play 20 songs in a row that had the word 'blue' in them, or whatever they wanted to do.

Roger McGuinn

#3. Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

Charles Dickens

#4. I am so wily and feminine that I could live by your side for a lifetime and deceive you afresh each day.

Jane Bowles

#5. Well, you devious little woman you. Do you know what I do to wily women?
"You ... leave them panting and oneless after a world-class orgasm?" she guessed.
"Why yes. Yes, ma'am, I do." Picking her up, I carried her back to my room and kicked the door shut behind me.

Linda Kage

#6. 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 away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

Ronald Reagan

#7. Foxes are rats in expensive coats. What are foxes associated with? Evil, wily, conniving, duplicitous, Fox News - worst news service on the planet and the evilest.

Rich Hall

#8. Oh Satan you're a wily one.

Craig Ferguson

#9. Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.

J.K. Rowling

#10. 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

#11. At home there tarries like a lurking snake,
Biding its time, a wrath unreconciled,
A wily watcher, passionate to slake,
In blood, resentment for a murdered child.

Aeschylus

#12. He is lost in Agamemnon and Odysseus' wily double meanings, their lies and games of power. They have confounded him, tied him to a stake and baited him. I stroke the soft skin of his forehead. I would untie him if I could. If he would let me.

Madeline Miller

#13. Death always wins. Life is just a blip. It's a shiny, hyperactive blip, but a blip nonetheless, and no matter how strong or wily or rich a life may be, the slippery slope always leads to the great nothing.

Daniel Jose Older

#14. America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. Stalky,' in their school vocabulary, meant clever, well-considered and wily, as applied to plans of action; and 'stalkiness' was the one virtue Corkran toiled after.

Rudyard Kipling

#16. As humans, after all, we become that which we seek. Dairy farming makes men steady and reliable and temperate; deer hunting makes men quiet and fast and sensitive; lobster fishing makes men suspicious and wily and ruthless.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#17. Thorn looks scrawny, but he's wily, and as fast as a ferret.

Erin Hunter

#18. I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.

Nolan Bushnell

#19. We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome ... shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

Garrison Keillor

#20. Rebel against the flesh and bone,
The word of the blood, the wily skin,
And the maggot no man can slay.

Dylan Thomas

#21. What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

W. Somerset Maugham

#22. He dreamed big but understood that dreams become reality only when their champions are strong enough and wily enough to bend history to their purposes.

Jon Meacham

#23. The subterranean lair of the wily human relationship: a dark maze of pop-up demons, fun house mirrors, spooky dead ends, multiple false bottoms.

Stephen Wright

#24. Samantha turned on a coy smile and the wily charm of a coquettish girl. A little shiver went through me. The one thing she wasn't was coy or coquettish. More like a cold hearted killer who only smiled at the thought of violence.

Kaden Brown

#25. The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.

Charles Portis

#26. In his dark suit, white shirt, and rep tie, he looked - and sounded - utterly professional. There was little chance he would make a mistake on direct or get tripped up on cross by a pettifogger, such as my own wily self.

Paul Levine

#27. 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 straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

#28. 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 or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

Soren Kierkegaard

#29. For pomp is a tenacious force. And a wily one too. How

Amor Towles

#30. With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

Mason Cooley

#31. Sylvia smiled at her like a wily fox.

Tasha Blue

#32. When my father was vigorous and lucid, (my mother) regarded medicine as her wily ally in a lifelong campaign to keep old age, sickness, and death at bay. Now ally and foe exchanged masks. Medicine looked more like the enemy, and death the friend. (p. 184)

Katy Butler

#33. Pastors are starting to get wily. When people tell my friend, 'I'm not being fed,' he replies, 'I'm prefectly happy to spoon feed my one-year-old. But if I'm still spoon-feeding him when he's five, we've got a problem. Here's a fork. Feed yourself.

Jon Acuff

#34. Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy.

Abraham Lincoln

#35. 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 writing, but candidates are foolish to comply. Words matter.

Mark McKinnon

#36. If you are not careful you will find yourself actually in the employ of the devil. He is powerful, slick, crafty, wily, and subtle.

Billy Graham

#37. 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 of extremity, failure, and success.

Alexander Chee

#38. 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

#39. This coyote is a wily dog born
from ancient trickster bones,
Loki, Hermes, the northwestern Raven of lore

Toby Barlow