Cunning Quotes
270 quotes by 222 authors
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
— Francis Bacon
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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
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'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event.
— John Berger
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
— William Blake
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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
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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
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Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
— Pablo Casals
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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
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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
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
— Thomas Paine
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
— Seneca the Younger
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
— A. E. Housman
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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
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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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