Cunning Quote by Anna Brownell Jameson

Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit,…

— Joseph Addison

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

— Anonymous

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

— Plato

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

— William Hazlitt

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

— William Rounseville Alger

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when…

— Thomas Paine

Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a…

— Joseph Addison

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

— Leo Tolstoy

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to…

— Samuel Johnson

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

— William Penn