Ruth Brown Quotes

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

I think I can deceive people. I'm like, the nice, sweet girl when you meet me. And I don't have any bad intentions. But I'm a bad girl too.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the craft and the crafty of it - I've been preoccupied with the word 'artful' and the twin notions of 'cornucopia' and 'pickpocket' it suggests for quite some time.

Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads.

We all have our preferences - some people go for birds - but for me, there's just something about the wolf; the design of it is really aesthetically pleasing.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

All warfare is based on deception.

For me, it works to my advantage when people think I'm stupid. If somebody who disdains you or wants to control you underestimates you, you can play their game right back.

I am not sure, therefore, that the highest talent for dissimulation does not belong to a people that does not have that very great physical advantage: the Japanese. Their ability to gain our confidence and appropriate our technology and science is simply phenomenal.

Everybody has an agenda.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.

I had been given some training in my past CIA career to do just this sort of thing ... floating forged newspaper accounts, telegrams, that sort of thing.

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

I'm smarter than the average; I just act dumb. That's what gets people's attention; you act dumb, you get people's attention.

I always believe that when you're not courageous, you become cunning.

I feel the wolf is a very competitive animal, very intelligent. He works hard to achieve his goals and protects his family.

As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?

A shinobi embodies an archetype that is able to use everything at their disposal. They don't pick a fighting style; they use every means and everything they can get their hands on. They exploit every weakness.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.