Crafty Quotes

• A crafty nightrunner died of late, And found himself at Bilairy’s Gate. He stood outside and refused to knock Because he meant to pick the lock.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Locks, Found, Late

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• A kiss is a lovely trick to stop speech.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Love, Romantic, Kissing

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• I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

  Emma Watson

  Art, Larks, Television

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

  Criss Jami

  Pain, Poet, Should

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.114, Criss Jami

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• In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty, your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.

  Akio Morita

  Running, Clever, Successful

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• It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent for storytelling.

  Osamu Dazai

  Talent, Storytelling, Irresponsible

  Osamu Dazai (2013). “Blue Bamboo: Tales by Dazai Osamu”, p.169, BookBaby

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• That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kindness, Sacrifice, Principles

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2014). “Baptismal Regeneration”, p.17, Curiosmith

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• Irony is the disparity between what you expect will happen, and what does happen. So raining on your wedding day isn't ironic, it's just crappy. It would have been ironic if she had lived in a place like Seattle, and traveled to the desert of Mexico for a wedding and it ended up raining there, but not in Seattle. Alanis always gets the last laugh though. We all sit here, saying her song isn't ironic, but in fact, that's pretty ironic that she wrote a song called Ironic that wasn't really ironic. Those Canadians are pretty crafty.

  Mo Rocca

  Song, Rain, Laughing

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• We are used to thinking of the Arabs as primitive men of the desert, as a donkey-like nation that neither sees nor understands what is going around it. But this is a GREAT ERROR. The Arab, like all sons of Sham, has sharp and crafty mind . . . Should time come when life of our people in Palestine imposes to a smaller or greater extent on the natives, they WILL NOT easily step aside.

  Ahad Ha'am

  Son, Men, Thinking

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• Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will certainly fail; and failures to men in power, are like defeats to a general, they shake their popularity. Therefore, since they cannot sail in the teeth of the wind, they must tack, and ultimately gain their object, by appearing at times to be departing from it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Wind, Political

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• It's easier to play a dim character, for me, because I have a natural bent for comedy. It's not intrinsic for me to be crafty, so I would have to go outside for a source of origin. I think of myself as pretty dim.

  Stephen Root

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• These most crafty enemies [the devils] have filled and inebriated with gall and bitterness the Church, the spouse of the Immaculate Lamb, and have laid impious hands on Her most sacred possessions. In the Holy Place itself, where has been set up the See of the most holy Peter and the Chair of Truth for the light of the world, they have raised the throne of their abominable impiety, with the iniquitous design that when the Pastor has been struck, the sheep may be scattered.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Past, Sheep, Light

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• My mom, the fabulous Bertie Kinsey, is an amazing seamstress. She quilts and sews and is so crafty. We call her the Southern Martha Stewart!

  Angela Kinsey

  Mom, Quilts, Southern

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• Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Art, Mean, Government

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Which I think is great. I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run by Jewish people. If you look at a lot of most successful corporations and stuff, more businesses, they're run by Jewish. It's not a knock, but they are some crafty people.

  Michael Ray

  Sports, Running, Successful

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• If you can throw $5 back in the crafty, we'll take it, because it just means another meal, which is nice.

  Katie Aselton

  Nice, Mean, Meals

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Profuseness is a cruel and crafty demon, that gradually involves her followers in dependence and debt; that is, fetters them with irons that enter into their souls.

  Samuel Johnson

  Iron, Soul, Extravagance

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• What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
  As to descry the crafty cunning train,
  By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,
  And cast her colours dyed deep in grain,
  To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign,
  And fitting gestures to her purpose frame,
  The guiltless man with guile to entertain?

  Edmund Spenser

  Wise, Men, Deceit

  Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.125, Canon Press & Book Service

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• He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Solemnity, Recommendations

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• People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch.

  Erislandy Lara

  Fighting, People, Style

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• Let us pray for the Catholic Church; for the Churches throughout the whole world; that is, for their truth, unity, and stability; that in all charity may flourish, and truth may live. For our own Church, that what is lacking in it may be supplied; what is unsound, corrected; that all Heresies, Schisms, Scandals, as well public as private, may be removed. Correct the wandering, convert the unbelieving, increase the faith of the Church, destroy Heresies, discover the crafty enemies, crush the violent.

  Lancelot Andrewes

  Crush, Catholic, Unity

  Lancelot Andrewes (1957). “Private Prayers”, London : S.C.M. Press

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• "The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

  John Cowper Powys

  Art, Book, Culture

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 134, 1929.

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• It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

  January Jones

  Mom, Witch

  "January Jones: Placenta Capsules Are ‘Not Witch-Crafty!’" by Catherine Kast, celebritybabies.people.com. March 23, 2012.

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• They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

  Anne Frank

  Stupid, Selfish, Tired

  Anne Frank (1993). “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl”, Bantam

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• It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

  John W. Gardner

  Children, Age, Six

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