Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

I shall have my hands full. He is as honest as he is shrewd; and if I beat him, my victory will be hardly won.

Of course the job has a lot of glamour. But it really is about being smarter than your average bear. Your mind is your best weapon. It's great when you're a good shot with an AK-47, but it's about being clever.

I work my angles and things like that.

I've always got a couple of tricks up my sleeve.

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.

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

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

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

Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

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 avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.

With foxes we must play the fox.

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.

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice Doggie!” till you can find a rock.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

Wits always win, man, in the battle of brain versus brawn.

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