Cunning Quotes
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.
We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.
