The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Unrequited love," I'd say. He'd look at me sideways in that cunning way he did and say, "what about it?" and I'd… — Maggie Stiefvater 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
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. — Pierre Charron 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
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
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
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
Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning.… — Barbara Kruger 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
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
He wore a sprinkling of powder upon his head, as if to make himself look benevolent; but if that were his purpose,… — Charles Dickens 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
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
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
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 dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. — Alexander Pope 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
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
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your politicians, priests, parents, they all are guilt-creators, because that is the only way that you can be controlled and manipulated. A… — Rajneesh 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
