Cunning Quotes

270 Cunning quotes by 216 unique authors

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas
More are taken in by hope than by cunning. — Luc de Clapiers
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment… — Philip Sidney
Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is… — Richard M. Weaver
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to… — Eugene O'Neill
May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man… — H P Lovecraft
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee
In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber,… — S I Hayakawa
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those who… — William Hazlitt
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones. — Lord Chesterfield
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the one who succeeds… — Emma Goldman
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty. — Jean Genet
People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he… — Henry Louis Gates
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda. — Paul Davies
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt
I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive. — Anthony Hopkins
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. — Aldous Huxley
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. — Plautus
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. — Alexander Pope
The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and… — Arundhati Roy
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if… — Giorgos Seferis
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. — John Tillotson

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