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- Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."
- The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.
- Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.
- Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that…
- Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.
- Cunning is to wisdom as ape is to a man
More Cunning Quotes
- Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon
- Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in… — Francis Beaumont
- 'Fahrenheit 9/11' is astounding. Not so much as a film - although it is cunning and moving - but as an event. — John Berger
- The weak in courage is strong in cunning. — William Blake
- The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be… — George W. Bush
- Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his… — Thomas Carlyle
- Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? — Pablo Casals
- None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of… — Lydia M. Child