Cunning Quote by George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Download Open image “A cunning woman is a knavish fool.” — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cunning Fool Women
The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man. — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself. — Ninon de L'Enclos Copy Share Image
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave… — George Savile Copy Share Image
The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery. — Ovid Copy Share
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Woman is a misbegotten man and has a faulty and defective nature in comparison to his. Therefore she is unsure in herself. What she… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
Beauty, like wit, to judges should be shown; Both most are valued where they best are known. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Copy Share Image
To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since… — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Copy Share Image
Wit is not levelled so much at the muscles as at the heart; and the latter will sometimes smile when there is not a… — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Copy Share Image
It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them. — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects of disease… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow.” — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool. When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
