The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the gospel be preached, he would suffer less… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Every time. You know why? I want to fail. I work like a dog for twenty years so I'll have the supreme… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them.… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“The ego is very cunning in that way: it goes on finding supports, props, new pastures to feed itself on. If you… — Osho Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
“he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
