Cunning Quote by Anonymous

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

— William Hazlitt

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... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

— Plato

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

— William Shakespeare

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

— William Rounseville Alger

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous…

— Norm MacDonald

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