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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• This is my favorite part. It starts and ends here. The pebbles shine, the plan worked, Hansel Triumphant. Lesson number one: be sneaky and have a plan. But the stupid boy goes back, makes the rest of the story postscript and aftermath. He shouldn’t have gone back. And this is the second lesson I took from the story: when someone is trying to ditch you, kill you, never go back.

  Richard Siken

  Stupid, Boys, Numbers

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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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• 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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• Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker . . ." A chuckle drifted up to me. "Pillow talk already? You'll have me hard before we're even back in our room.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Rooms, Bloodsuckers, Pillow

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• Harry Reid is not funny; he's creepy. Nancy Pelosi is creepy. Charles Schumer is sneaky and creepy.

  Lewis Black

  Creepy, Nancy

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• I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said. Sam leaned down and kissed me back, his mouth lingering on mine, teeth grazing my lower lip, making me shiver. "Surprise attack back." "Sneaky," I said, my voice breathier than I intended.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Kissing, Voice, Teeth

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.209, Scholastic Inc.

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• Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

  Victoria Alexander

  Silly, Greek, Woods

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

  Lorrie Moore

  Photography, Taxidermy

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• Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn't want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you'd cheat! I knew you'd win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming "Aaaaaaaaaaaa", then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it's just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Real, Stupid

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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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