Famous quotes containing the word devious:
“Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 4:24.
“See how the sacred old flamingoes come,
Painting with shadow all the marble steps:
Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perches
Within the temple, devious walking, made
To wander by their melancholy minds.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)