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Now is the time for guts and guile, -- Elizabeth Taylor
We shall perish by guile just as we slew. -- Aeschylus
For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile. -- Rupert Brooke
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men. -- Aristophanes
Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile. -- Minnie Driver
Oh what lies there are in kisses! And their guile so well prepared! Sweet the snaring is; but this is Sweeter still, to be ensnared. -- Heinrich Heine
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile. -- Carter Heyward
All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments. -- Sarah Hall
And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. -- Abraham Lincoln
That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge . -- John Milton
..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile. -- Paul Laurence Dunbar
It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway. -- Kyril Bonfiglioli
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. -- Kate Chopin
Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language. -- Michael Ondaatje
Elephants are highly emotional. Whatever they are feeling, they let it out immediately, and the histrionics are over and forgotten in a moment, lasting no longer than the cloud formations that are constantly coming apart and re-forming overhead. There is no guile in pachyderms. -- Alex Shoumatoff
Merlin is really at the forefront, in that regard. We get a glimpse into the dark, Machiavellian corridors of power. I like the fact that, although he has powers, his powers are almost in his political guile as much as what he relies on, in darker forces. -- Joseph Fiennes
But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts. -- Ignatius of Loyola
And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows. -- Thomas Mann
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958 for $31,500. He seemed to answer to a deeply rooted, distinctly American mythology, in which decency and common sense triumphed over cosmopolitan guile, and in which an idealized past held firm against a rootless and too hurriedly changing present. -- Roger Lowenstein
From one point of view we can say that we have human bodies and are practicing the Buddha's teachings and are thus much better than insects. But we can also say that insects are innocent and free from guile, where as we often lie and misrepresent ourselves in devious ways in order to achieve our ends or better ourselves. From this perspective, we are much worse than insects. -- Dalai Lama
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward. -- Benjamin Harvey Hill
Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion... -- Søren Kierkegaard
You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb. -- Dean Koontz
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, Are the children of Men -- Aristophanes
The most dangerous physicians are those born actors who imitate born physicians with a perfectly deceptive guile. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
What is childlike humility? It's not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda. -- Todd Burpo
Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.... -- William Butler Yeats
Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty. -- Jack Vance
I'm not a person who thinks they can have it all, but I certainly feel that with a bit of effort and guile I should be able to have more than my fair share. -- George Carlin

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