Caught Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

— Benjamin Franklin

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

— Austin O'Malley

He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long…

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

— William Hazlitt

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to…

— Samuel Johnson

A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good

— Sophocles

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

— Anonymous

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The whole power of cunning is privative; to say nothing, and to do nothing , is the utmost of its reach. Yet men, thus…

— Samuel Johnson

Cunning is strength withheld.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson