Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
From a dog's point of view his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
“Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl). — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
“Student: Master, you said that death is very cunning... Master: Yes, death is so cunning that it made everyone accept the lie… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At His command, Seeking His secret… — Ronald Ross Copy Share Image
Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If women had power, what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. — Plautus Copy Share Image
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every… — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
