Cunning Quotes

270 Cunning quotes by 216 unique authors

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if… — Francis Bacon
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe,… — James Joyce
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. — Martin Luther
There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more… — Pat Conroy
Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If… — Bill Bryson
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves? — T.H. White
Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do? — Terry Pratchett
One must be cunning and wicked in this world. — Leo Tolstoy
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but… — Spencer W. Kimball
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our… — Kurt Vonnegut
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. — Mikhail Lermontov
...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured… — James Agee
Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it… — J M Coetzee
Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black… — Amy Tan
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once… — Carol Shields
They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being… — C.S. Lewis
Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow. — Christopher Marlowe
A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up… — Rudyard Kipling
And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger.… — James Clavell
I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder:… — Roland Barthes
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do. — Angela Carter
But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when… — James M. Barrie
We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're… — Eddie Izzard

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