Cunning Quotes

270 Cunning quotes by 216 unique authors

Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values… — Calvin Coolidge
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting.… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard… — John Arbuthnot
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are. — Michael Connelly
The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir...… — Eddie Izzard
You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater. — Donald Rumsfeld
In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry,… — Daniel Guerin
When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few,… — Motsi Mabuse
When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not be oppressed by… — Motsi Mabuse
Let our hearts admit, “I am poor and weak. Satan is too subtle, too cunning, too powerful; he watches constantly for advantages over my soul.… — John Owen
You say I have the most wicked face of any woman. You say my hair is like the serpent locks of Medusa, that my eyes… — Theda Bara
The demagogue is usually sly, a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him,… — James F. Cooper
Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. — S.M. Stirling
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules… — George Herbert
History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning… — Leon Trotsky
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard
Lozen is my right hand . . . strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to… — Victorio
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie… — Samuel Johnson
The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be. — Laozi
Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning? — Laozi
To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows… — Simon Soloveychik
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring to bear against… — Reuben Archer Torrey

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