Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. — Peter York Copy Share Image
“Good people often lost out. To come up in life, one needed to be devious and cunning.” — Anand Neelakantan 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
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted. — John Philpot Curran 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
“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
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
“This treachery of life is too cunning to be abandoned but the anguish of being in it demands negligence.” — Riyana Baboo Copy Share Image
Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“He was very clever, he gave the impression of being tolerant and kind, while actually being very dark, very cunning.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the… — Emma Goldman 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
Why is the tao so valuable? Because it is everywhere, and everyone can use it. This is why those who seek will… — Laozi Copy Share Image
As we get older, we become more political in terms of survival. We realize a certain amount of cunning is necessary and… — Pernell Roberts Copy Share Image
It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's… — Joanna Baillie Copy Share Image
“Be blessed with an honest character, true heart. Wise, dignified people who value honesty stir away from dishonest, corrupt schemers. Great reward… — Angelica Hopes 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
“This was why he had become a master thief, to achieve this theft of thefts, this masterpiece of larceny. All the time,… — Frances Hardinge 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
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The action of Pity leaps quicker than light from the highest place to the lowest to bring healing and joy, whatever the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in… — Terrence Rafferty Copy Share Image
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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