Cunning Quotes

270 Cunning quotes by 216 unique authors

I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint. — Mahatma Gandhi
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the… — Augustin Thierry
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object,… — Thomas Paine
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for… — Jean Baudrillard
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch
Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for… — Whitley Strieber
Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under… — Thomas Carlyle
In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit. — Charles Krauthammer
I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought the government to… — Ani DiFranco
All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must… — Richard Adams
At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether he was really the leader… — Richard Adams
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as… — Thomas Paine
From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. — Mabel L Robinson
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach. — Napoleon Hill
In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open,… — Thomas Jefferson
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. — Sappho
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is… — Charles Macklin
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." — Unknown Author
People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning… — Neil Gaiman
The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and… — Plato
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. — Plato
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good — Sophocles

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