Cunning Quote by Thomas Becket Download Open image “Those who tread among serpents, and along a tortuous path, must use the cunning of the serpent.” — Thomas Becket ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cunning Path Serpent Use Who
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“For it may happen to the commonwealth, as to the serpent in the fable, whose tail, rising in rebellion against the head, complained, as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“We are much beholden to Machiavelli and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do . For it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Who, then, are the seed of the serpent? They are those who manifest that spirit of independent pride by which their father the Devil… — G.H. Pember Copy Share Image
“The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.” — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The coils of a serpent are even more complex than the burrows of a molehill.” — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
The king is so subtle with his words that he would confound the apostolic religion itself. He will find the weak points of the… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
Do you not know that the largest trees, which have required years to grow, are cut down in one hour? It is foolish to… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He heaped calumny after calumny… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
It is important that the Church of London, which has now lost its ruler, should receive for its new bishop a man whose personal… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
We know that no trust can be placed on princes and that cursed is the man who placeth his reliance on an arm of… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
Thou knowest how long and loyally I served the king in his worldly affairs. For that cause, it pleased him to promote me to… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
Could I anticipate the enmity of those for whom I encountered such opposition? If they had been willing, I should have gained the victory.… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
The rashness of the persecutor hath overspread the rights of the persecuted so that punishment is awarded to him that has gained the victory,… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
My beloved brethren, why do you not rise together with me against the malignants? Why do you not stand up with me to oppose… — Thomas Becket Copy Share Image
Who shall resist Anti-Christ when he comes if we show such patience towards the vices and crimes of his precursors? By such leniency, we… — Thomas Becket 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
“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 Copy Share Image
I am defined by my will to survive, not by intelligence or cunning or money or good looks. The Creator didn't see her way… — Jaune Quick–to–See Smith Copy Share Image