Character Quote by Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

— Plato

The highest virtue seems as low as a valley.

— Laozi

“Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her. "You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to her ear, "or I'm going to bend…

— Olivia Cunning

“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

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

— George William Curtis

“Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And melting heavens conspired his overthrow.”

— Christopher Marlowe

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

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

— Iris Murdoch

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

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

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

— Vernon Howard

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

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

— Evan Esar

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

— Christina Stead