Shrewd Quotes
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Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.
— Nicholas Wiseman
When a wolf is hungry it befriends sheep.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.
— Natalie Dormer
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
I have a pretty reasonably shrewd idea of where we go from here," said Dirrp. "At least, a sort of a notion.
— Charlie Jane Anders
But he was also shrewd instead of wise, mannerly instead of kind, and ambitious instead of strong. I
— Amy Harmon
The shrewd help the strong.The wise help the weak. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
— Heinlein Robert A.
My answers are typically 'guesses' cleverly disguised as answers.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
My dad's a very shrewd, clever guy.
— C. Thomas Howell
Kids are so shrewd.
— Maurice Sendak
A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together
— John Grisham
Everything about me is pretty and a lot of it is shrewd. So I had a pretty shrewd idea what was going on.
— Melody Malone
Rosemary, in his heart your brother is a lover. The shrewd businessman, the adventurer, the dandy are but costumes the lover wears.
— Donald McCaig
The President's very shrewd
— Sam Donaldson
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
— Charles Horton Cooley
Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.
— Rebecca West
My first cut was three hours and 17 minutes. And then I just became very shrewd about the editing.
— Mark Ruffalo
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The shrewd may gain temporarily, but the wise gain permanently.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
— Rod Stewart
Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
From the very first I took a firm and rooted dislike to him, and I flatter myself that my first judgments are usually fairly shrewd.
— Agatha Christie
The shrewd, like chameleons, embrace change when it is to their advantage.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California. He is a very shrewd man - he already has all of his sex scandals behind him.
— David Letterman
Unveil a person's thoughts,and you are shrewd.
Unveil a person's desires,
and you are wise. — Matshona Dhliwayo
Despaired of any rest or contentment in a world grown too busy for beauty and too shrewd for dreams
— H.P. Lovecraft
The shrewd hunt foxes,the strong hunt lions,
but the mighty hunt elephants. — Matshona Dhliwayo
His face looked shrewd and wise, as if he knew many things, many of them not worth knowing.
— E.B. White
Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other's company.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
King Shrewd is expecting me, rather he isn't expecting me, and that is precisely why I must go to him now.
— Robin Hobb
The Church must be intelligible to the simple as well as to the shrewd.
— Robert Hugh Benson
Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
— Franz Grillparzer
The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Without a doubt, the most ingenious plan I could ever hope to devise would be to trade my plans for God's.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time;
— David Halberstam
When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.
— Henry Tamburin
Hardship makes you strong.Problems make you shrewd.
Critics make you brave.
Enemies make you wise. — Matshona Dhliwayo
His decision suggests that an absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
If you seem to have stumbled, think that it was fated to be so. Your heart is shrewd as well as faithful, and saw clearer than your eyes. For
— J.R.R. Tolkien
A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.
— Don DeLillo
The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.
— W. Somerset Maugham
My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.
— Rod Stewart
The smartest fish are still in the sea.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Mr. Biz! The shrewd and savage business shark,
— Rachel Renee Russell
Let me not be sentimental, let the distance in time give me humor and irony and a shrewd, if loving, eye.
— Sylvia Plath
