“But fate it a cunning hussy, and builds up her plans as imperceptibly as a bird builds her nest; and with the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Few criminals were as cunning, clever, bold, or difficult to catch as a maniac with a mission.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
To be without guile is to be free of deceit, cunning, hypocrisy, and dishonesty in thought or action. — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
“The Enemy is cunning. In the most subtle of takeovers, he lies to us about everything, and especially about what we “deserve.”… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The Gospel of the army is cunning, as of all other human activities. The wisdom of the snake under the meekness of… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
“Ankh-Morpork way of doing things. Heinrich had a reputation locally for cunning, but Ankh-Morpork had overtaken cunning a thousand years ago, had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino… — Plautus Copy Share Image
“Leaders that wear the largest hats have few armies to attack a land so this leads them to be sly and cunning… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can… — Archilochus Copy Share Image
Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“A rose by any other name Would never, never smell the same And cunning is the nose that knows An onion that's… — Wendell Johnson Copy Share Image
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how many men in the Bible failed in the second half of life? Our enemy is so cunning… — Joseph C. Aldrich Copy Share Image
A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“This treachery of life is too cunning to be abandoned but the anguish of being in it demands negligence.” — Riyana Baboo Copy Share Image
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning. — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
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