“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
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They are more cunning than practical. When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Five has always been this brilliant, very cunning, and weird little mind, so a number suited him, in a way, and he… — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left… — Dara Wier Copy Share Image
Keep your own secret, and get out other people's. Keep your own temper, and artfully warm other people's. Counterwork your rivalswith diligence… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see… — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image
The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo… — Fergie Copy Share Image
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning… — Rene Ricard Copy Share Image
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the… — Ovid Copy Share Image
In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united… — Daniel Guerin Copy Share Image
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“In politics, victory goes to those with cunning, mettle and deviousness, not those who have facts and principles on their side.” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa,… — Theda Bara Copy Share Image
Fury said to a mousethat he met in the houselet us both go to law; I will prosecute youlet there be no… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
