Cunning Quotes

270 Cunning quotes by 216 unique authors

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning. — Renee Vivien
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day of his present… — Maximus the Confessor
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a… — William Hazlitt
Reason is just as cunning as she is powerful. Her cunning consists principally in her mediating activity, which, by causing objects to act and re-act… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know… — Henry Suso
A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like… — Danny Boyle
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which… — John Calvin
It's those changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes nothing remains quite the same. With all of our running and all of our cunning, if we… — Jimmy Buffett
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'? — Jiddu Krishnamurti
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking… — George Bernard Shaw
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,… — Herman Melville
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess… — Baltasar Gracian
Wine is a cunning wrestler. — Plautus
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest. — William Shakespeare
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. — Ninon de L'Enclos
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth. — Benjamin Franklin
The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone. — Benjamin Franklin
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else. — Benjamin Franklin
The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more… — William Shakespeare
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop… — William Shakespeare
The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that… — Eric Hoffer
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning. — William Blake
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women,… — Alexander Pope

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