The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections. — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. — Pierre Charron Copy Share Image
“...true style comes from innate cunning and mendacity. You can’t buy it.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Without cunning, there is no innovation. Without ambition, there is no accomplishment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A cunning adversary will teach you more than a brainless ally.” — Matshona Dhliwayo 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
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
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
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning. — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. — A. E. Housman 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
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
It's the word 'artful'; it's such a great word, with its dark and its light side, its art and its cunning, the… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
“Piety /pi•e•ty/ (modern definition) 1. When you use Christ’s teachings to put someone in their place out of anger and self-righteousness. It… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
If you want to compete in Italy, the only accepted ways are brute force, or cunning. Like Machiavelli says, "Fronte otra forze."… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The Communist threat from without must not blind us to the Communist threat from within. The latter is reaching into the very… — J. Edgar Hoover Copy Share Image
In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a scared white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
“Bellario. Sir, you did take me up When I was nothing; and only yet am something By being yours. You trusted me… — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
This is a very fundamental reason why man cannot become meditative - or why very few men have dared to become meditative.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Unlike the authors of such warrior classics as The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings, which accept the… — Morihei Ueshiba Copy Share Image
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“Excerpt from Goblin Night Fever: ‘Why do we have to meet in a place like this?’ said Plopbottle as soon as the… — Indigo Lane Copy Share Image
