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Cunning Quotes by Herman Melville
- Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked…
- O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter,…
- Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler…
More Cunning Quotes
- 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Cesare Pavese