Cunningly Quotes

19 quotes by 16 authors

If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently… — John Bertram Phillips
The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before... — Frederic Morton
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly.Â To handle a language cunningly is to practice a… — Charles Baudelaire
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. — Oliver Herford
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person,… — Anthony Burgess
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they… — Thomas Carlyle
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five… — Henry David Thoreau
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge. — Thomas Carlyle
It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the… — Christopher Hitchens
and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot
Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead… — Edith Wharton
Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!â€ it said. â€œI will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever… — Roger Zelazny
I am a little world made cunningly. — John Donne
All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that… — James A. Baldwin
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and… — Leo Tolstoy
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It seems everyone is converging on a simple set of facts: Our lives are digital, and we wish to share our lives. Pinterest came at… — John Battelle

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