Sneaky Quotes

• Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow, especially about trifles, they'll do anything to avoid pain but they enjoy inflicting it: little men already.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pain, Children, Liars

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• But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.

  Evan Dando

  Too Much, Bugs

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• If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

  Ian St John

  Jobs, Trying, Way

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• See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

  Linus Torvalds

  Linux, Coders

  Linux newsgroup post, July 05, 1996.

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• Texting is a fundamentally sneaky form of communication, which we should despise, but it is such a boon we don't care. We are all sneaks now.

  Lynne Truss

  Communication, Care, Texting

  "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.

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• Fear is a sneaky thief, stealing away precious moments of your life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Thieves, Moments, Stealing

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• We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wicked, Needs, Want

  "Fictional character: Gollum". "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", 2002.

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• Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re sneaky, all the ways that you hide out, all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all of that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether. We are all up against these things. We are all in this together.

  Pema Chodron

  Kindness, Healing, Knowing

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• Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.

  Daniel Handler

  Grief, Sadness, Love Is

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• The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.

  David Foster

  Views, Sun, Hell

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• The truth is that progress is usually small and sneaky.

  Anne Lamott

  Progress, Truth Is

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• I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Motherhood, Years

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• If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever.

  Eric Alterman

  Clever, Alarms, Doe

  Eric Alterman (2008). “Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals”, p.17, Penguin

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• Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.

  Linda Howard

  Whiskey, Hormones

  Linda Howard (2012). “Now You See Her”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to go for the gusto, ask yourself this important question: "How long am I going to be dead?" With that perspective, you can now make a free, fearless choice to do just about any goddamned sneaky thing your devious little mind can think up. Go ahead. Have your fun. You're welcome. Go on. See you in hell.

  Matt Groening

  Fun, Simple, Thinking

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• I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

  Lorrie Moore

  Photography, Taxidermy

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• I got a curve so sneaky it might be your daddy.

  Satchel Paige

  Curves, Daddy, Might

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• Mayor Daley has no honor and his word has no value. The sneaky way he did this shows that he knows it was wrong. We're not going to allow the mayor to hide behind the fiction of homeland security for his reprehensible action.

  Phil Boyer

  Honor, Way, Fiction

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• I guess each of us, at some time, finds one person with whom we are compelled towards absolute honesty, one person whose good opinion of us becomes a substitute for the broader opinion of the world. And that opinion becomes more important than all our sneaky, sleazy schemes of greed, lust, self-aggrandizement, whatever we are up to while lying the world into believing we are just plain nice folks.

  Glen Cook

  Honesty, Nice, Lying

  Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.31, Macmillan

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• To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

  Harold Nicolson

  Writing, Mind

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• In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

  Kate Morton

  Real, Opportunity, Order

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.

  David Bayles

  Art, Irritation, Giving

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.14, Image Continuum Press

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• You start to learn that democracies don't work when it comes to artistic expression. You learn that if you don't handle your business, someone else is going to handle it and be sneaky about it, and put an extra dollar in their pocket. You learn all sorts of things you take to your next relationship. You're constantly learning about what you don't want to do, first and foremost, which leads you to what you do want to do.

  Omar Rodriguez-Lopez

  Democracy, Artistic, Extras

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, “But you’ve got an advantage, sweetheart. You’re already in his head. And you know how to mess with it.

  Nalini Singh

  Distance, Voice, Sweetheart

  Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.100, Penguin

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• I'd be a terrible secret agent. I can't keep a secret and I'm not sneaky.

  Katherine Heigl

  Secret, Agents, Terrible

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