Top Sly Quotes

Childermass knew what games the children on street-corners are playing - games that all other grown-ups have long since forgotten. Childermass knew what old people by firesides are thinking of, though...

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Sly Definition

(v. t.) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense.

(v. t.) Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily.

(v. t.) Done with, and marked by, artful and dexterous secrecy; subtle; as, a sly trick.

(v. t.) Light or delicate; slight; thin.

(adv.) Slyly.

That’s my one desire, to be caught, answered Vronsky, with his serene,