Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is in just such stupid things clever people are most easily caught. The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Benjamin Franklin

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Easy as pie! Clever people get tripped up most easily on just such insignificant details. The cleverer a person is, the less he suspects…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A trap, like a good story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them until the prey is snared.”

— E.J. Patten

The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him; and a man is never so…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

“However low he may fall, a man can never deny himself the delight of feeling cleverer, more powerful or even better fed than his…

— Maxim Gorky

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

— Samuel Johnson

...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of…

— Samuel Johnson

“...the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one”

— Joe Ambercrombie