Philippa Gregory Quotes

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

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

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

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

A woman should be an illusion.

I want to keep people guessing.

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

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

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

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

I'll always keep you guessing. I'm living up to the name. It's powerful. That's just what I do.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

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

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.

Drunk, Jane spoke as though she were Nancy Drew. I was a fool for a girl with a dainty lexicon.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. ... He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.