Cunningly Quotes
19 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before...
— Frederic Morton
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There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
— Oliver Herford
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!†it said. “I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever…
— Roger Zelazny
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I am a little world made cunningly.
— John Donne
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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
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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
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How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
Who Wrote These Cunningly Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 19 Cunningly Quotes as follows: