guile quotes

For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile.

- Rupert Chawner Brooke
  'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'.

  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
  Satan gazes upon Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.463^6.

It is no game for the soft of sinewand the gentle of spirit. Thehigherand dirtiercroquet-playercanusetheguile of a cobra and the inhumanity of a boa constrictor.

- Alexander Humphreys Woollcott
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).