Winston Churchill Quotes

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

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.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.

Johnny 'Fairplay' Dalton manufactured a lie about his dear grandmother dying in order to win a challenge. This is one of the best villain moments of 'Survivor' ever! This lie was pre-planned, evil, and perfectly played out.

Set of Vipers

Creative betrayal is the essence of successful statesmanship.

I already smell some rats.

General Biassou is a simple, vulnerable man without much knowledge, and he is easily led astray by the scoundrels surrounding him. He has sworn eternal hatred for me, and for some time now, he has been trying to destroy me using whatever means he can.

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.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

The genius is making a way out of no way.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

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

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will fit one neck as easily as another.

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

A good wit will make use of anything.

This is one of my favorites. People think of creativity as this sort of unbridled thing, but engineers thrive on constraints. They love to think their way out of that little box: 'We know you said it was impossible, but we're going to do this, this, and that to get us there.'