Stealth Quotes

• The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

  Charles Lamb

  Character, Deeds Done, Charity

  "The Life, Letters and Writings of Charles Lamb".

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• In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Art, Reality

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• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  'Imitations of Horace' Epilogue to the Satires (1738) Dialogue 1, l. 135

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• No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

  William Hazlitt

  Perfection, Approach

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays by W. H. Now first collected [and edited] by his son”, p.255

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• The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Way, Violence, Deals

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• If intelligence is our only edge, we must learn to use it better, to shape it, to understand its limitations and deficiencies -- to use it as cats use stealth, as katydids use camouflage -- to make it the tool of our survival.

  Carl Sagan

  Cat, Survival, Tools

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• Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

  Terry Pratchett

  Arrogance, Modesty

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• The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life.

  Bob Hope

  Bombers, Bombs, Hell

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• Anger and hatred, when left unfed, bleed away like air from a punctured tire, over time and days and years. Forgiveness is stealth.

  Barry Lyga

  Air, Years, Hatred

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Boy Toy”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'.

  John Romero

  World, Want, Rogues

  "The future of games is freedom". Interview with Alexander Gambotto-Burke, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2006.

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• Even thus last night, and two nights more I lay,
  And could not win thee, Sleep, by any stealth:
  So do not let me wear to-night away.
  Without thee what is all the morning's wealth?
  Come, blessed barrier between day and day,
  Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

  William Wordsworth

  Mother, Dream, Morning

  William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.181

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• People working on bigger ideas on a more protracted timeline will be more on the stealth side. They aren’t releasing new PR announcements every day. The bigger the secret and the likelier it is that you alone have it, the more time you have to execute. There may be far more people going after hard secrets than we think.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 11 Notes Essay". blakemasters.com. May 11, 2012.

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• Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

  William Shakespeare

  Tongue, Shame, Orators

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.746, Oxford University Press

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• TAKE, v.t. To acquire, frequently by force but preferably by stealth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Force, Acquire

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.815, Library of America

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• Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.

  Mel Gibson

  World, Trends, Politician

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Saints rarely have friends; they are usually hated and derided, for they love and love is always rejected by hard-hearted men....saints do not advertise themselves; good men do not seek out a name in the world....the saints did what they did almost in stealth, asking nothing except that men love God.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Love Is, Men, Names

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• Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

  Aeschylus

  Destiny, Wealth, Subtle

  Aeschylus (1901). “Aeschylos: Agamemnon. The libation-pourers. Eumenides. Fragments. Rhymed choruses from Agamemnon, The libation-pourers, Eumenides”

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• In Afghanistan this week, outnumbered Northern Alliance rebels on horseback defeated Taliban forces armed with tanks. Experts say the victory is just like the story of David and Goliath and David's friend, the Stealth Bomber.

  Tina Fey

  Victory, Rebel, Experts

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• I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

  Terry Goodkind

  Philosophy, Fantasy, Said

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• If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.

  Linda Sue Park

  Taken, Men, Ideas

  Linda Sue Park (2002). “A single shard”

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• Where are the dogs?" I asked. "At training," he said. "I have a friend who's an expert dog trainer, and he's giving them some stealth lessons. He used to work for a local K-9 unit." I didn't think it was in the Chihuahua genetic code to ever be stealthy.

  Richelle Mead

  Dog, Thinking, Giving

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.209, Penguin

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• The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to.

  George Carlin

  Use, Cocaine, Aspect

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I make videos... (whispers) no one sees! I go on tour.... (whispers) no one knows! NINJA! I was never here!

  Henry Rollins

  Video, Records, Goes On

  "Talk Is Cheap. Volume 2". Live album by Henry Rollins, 2003.

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• Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And make America again!

  Langston Hughes

  Lying, Land, Rivers

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

  Danny Boyle

  Trying, Directors, Looks

  "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.

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