Wiles Quotes

“You can't make me do anything. I'm an adult. And I'm much stronger than you."

"Upper body strength isn't everything; I have wiles."

"Not really."

"Yes, I do. I'm a woman. Women have wiles."

"Some women. It's not like every woman is born wily."

"If I don't have wiles, she said, "how come I can get you to do most anything I want?"

"You don't get me to do anything. I just do things. Because I love you."

"Oh."

"Christ, Georgie, don't sound so disappointed.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Landline

“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would steal into his thoughts; the sound of her laughter at his outrageous tales, the shadowed glance of distrust, the way her eyebrows would raise ever so slightly despite her resolution to seem disinterested in his foreign insights. She was the first woman he ventured to have complete equality in matching his tremendous cleverness.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Men think wiles charming unless they find out your charms are wiles.”
― Tyne O'Connell, Latest Accessory

“I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.”
― Orhan Pamuk