Honore de Balzac Quotes

There's a gigantic gray area between good moral behavior and outright felonious activities. I call that the Weasel Zone and it's where most of life happens.

There is always a way out for those clever enough to find it.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid. For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks.

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not, and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

It's immoral to steal, but you can take things.

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface.

Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.

He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?” “Good for what?” asked the Doctor. “You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon; cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.