Cunning Quotes

270 quotes by 222 authors

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock. — Francis Beaumont
'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event. — John Berger
The weak in courage is strong in cunning. — William Blake
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom… — George W. Bush
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot… — Thomas Carlyle
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? — Pablo Casals
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political… — Lydia M. Child
I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf. — Thomas Paine
In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with… — Leo Tolstoy
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching… — Cesare Pavese
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you… — Abraham Lincoln
Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun… — James Joyce
Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end. — Carl von Clausewitz
Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning. — Seneca the Younger
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. — A. E. Housman
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles de Gaulle
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender;… — Rajneesh

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