Wily Quotes

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

I was always known as the 'Desert Fox.'

Of faith in God he [Frederick II, the Great] had none; he was crafty, wily, avaricious, lustful, malicious, wrathful; and yet a gallant man times, when he would show his kindness or courtesy; full of solace jocund, delightful, fertile in devices. He knew to read, write, and sing, to make songs and music. He was a comely man, and well formed, but of middle stature …. he knew how to speak with many and varied tongues, and, to be brief, if he had been rightly Catholic, and had loved God and His Church, he would have had few emperors his equals in the world.

My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.

I'm a small shifty kind of guy.

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.