A pathological finagler.
Director of the Budget David Stockman is:
The pickpocket is usually very well dressed and of prepossessing appearance.
I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
In a society like ours, politics is improvisation. To the artful dodger rather than the true believer goes the prize.
My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.
The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.
