By the end of Liebling's dispatch, Mollie has become a mythic figure invulnerable to death, capable of great feats of courage and guile , and able to transform himself into any human type for the purposes of disguise. — Lee Siegel , Harper's ,

The going was painfully slow, but Chickenhound consoled himself on the long journey by boosting his own ego. "Maybe a silly bunch of rats could put one over on Sela. Huh, she was old and had lost a lot of her guile . Not like me! They hadn't reckoned with a smart intelligent young fox like I am." — Brian Jacques , Redwall ,

Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile . — Edith Wharton , The Age of Innocence ,

a shady salesman who usually relies on a combination of quick thinking and guile

a person so full of guile he can't even be trusted to give you the correct time of day