Cunning Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it may not,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— William Hazlitt

“recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from “good families.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

— Edmund Burke

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

“Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.”

— Richard Adams

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

— William Shakespeare

“The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good, and wise;…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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.

— Rumi

Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a…

— Joseph Addison