A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard be-seems, Who, void of envy, guile, and lust of gain, On virtue still, and natures pleasing themes, Poured from his unpremeditated strain.
Quotes about guile (16 Quotes)
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, This debt we pay to human guile . . . But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask.
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
Frankly, it wasn't a conscious choice to go after big leaguers. They became available to us and they're good guys who can play well. One of the things that we've always done here I've always built a team for playoffs in April. Part of that is having players with experience and the guile to get it done when it's (crunch) time. That's what we're looking for.
For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.
Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief,'O Lord, my heart is black with guile, Of sinners I am chief.'
Actually, I was starting to feel like my abilities were best suited at tackle, because I'm not as fast as I used to be. As you get older, it's a leg-strength game. I'm able to sort of trick the team and trick this league that I can play inside. That's basically what I got by with - a little guile, a little veteran savvy, and also leaning on my teammates.
When a teacher of the future comes to point out to the youth of America how the highest rewards of intellect and devotion can be gained, he may say to them, not by subtlety and intrigue not by wire pulling and demagoguery not by the arts of popularity not by skill and shiftiness in following expediency but by being firm in devotion to the principles of manhood and the application of morals and the courage of righteousness in the public life of our country by being a man without guile and without fear, without selfishness, and with devotion to duty, devotion to his country.
Reese Witherspoon was the first, and ... only person that I thought who would play it, for many reasons. Number one, an actor who has to play from 17 to 35 and be convincing in both ranges. And two, we all know her extraordinary comic guile and her wit ... but she also has that irresistibility in her, that total appeal.
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.
In today's tight job market, such candidates can be hard to find. Here in the Research Triangle (of North Carolina), if your breath makes a smudge on a mirror, you can get a job, ... getting by with guile rather than application of talent.
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again when he suffered, he threatened not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were healed. For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
Having 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.
So when he saw his shirt rent from behind, he said Surely it is a guile of you women surely your guile is great O Yusuf turn aside from this and (O my wife) ask forgiveness for your fault, surely you are one of the wrong-doers.
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.