Cunning Quotes

270 Cunning quotes by 216 unique authors

With a title like this-There's a Box in the Garage You Can Beat with a Stick-is there really a whole lot left to say? With… — Dara Wier
Indeed, my wish is quite simple: if we could learn to recognise and evade the biggest errors in our thinking - in our private lives,… — Rolf Dobelli
In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of… — Edward Coke
As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful… — Charles Kellogg
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his… — Samuel Johnson
This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and… — Theodore Dalrymple
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy… — Sean O'Casey
It's easy to slide into believing you're the hypnotist here, the mirage master, the smart cookie who knows what's real and how all the tricks… — Tana French
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed… — Winston Churchill
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. — Jean de la Bruyere
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… — Herman Melville
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. — Cynthia Ozick
The greatest cunning is to have none at all. — Carl Sandburg
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability… — Victor Hugo
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. — Sydney J. Harris
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. — Samuel Johnson
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh… — Gelett Burgess
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes… — Carl Jung
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without… — Cristina Saralegui
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. — Strom Thurmond
Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore… — Jon Voight

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