Cunning Quotes
270 Cunning quotes by 216 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
— Martin Luther
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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
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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
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Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
— T.H. White
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Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
— Terry Pratchett
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.
— Leo Tolstoy
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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
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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
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Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
— Mikhail Lermontov
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...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
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Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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