It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The media are very smart, they're very cunning, and they're very dishonest. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Be down to earth, for some, not all. Because a few have a habit of stamping on, to reach their goal.” — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
“As Friedland had done and as Jobs would learn to do, he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
“Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first… — Plato Copy Share Image
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method… — Jon Voight Copy Share Image
Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed,… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages… — John Owen Copy Share Image
As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how… — Tana French Copy Share Image
A cat is a purring parcel of paradox, a cunning collection of contradictions. A cat is lazy and busy, dainty and savage,… — Leonore Fleischer Copy Share Image
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
