Cunning Quote by Benjamin Franklin

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

— Benjamin Franklin

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— Plato

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

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— William Penn

Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

— Austin O'Malley