Cunning Quote by Walter Kirn Download Open image “Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn” — Walter Kirn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cunning Quiet
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“The reasons for our prolific understating are not hard to discover: our strict prohibitions on earnestness, gushing, emoting and boasting require almost constant use… — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess. — Theophrastus Copy Share Image
This is some fellow, Who having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness and constrains the garb Quite from his nature: he… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“I said,” said Lear, “most pernicious monstress, perfect in her perfidy!” Kent mimed a set of generous bosoms on himself and raised an eyebrow… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Manute Bol was one of the guys who taught me to be bold. To be fierce. To speak intelligently, and speak like you belong. — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
“He was a big, rather clumsy man, with a substantial bay window that started in the middle of the chest. I should guess that… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“I just wasn't ready for his stories. They'd breed with the others I'd heard and hatch new monsters, because there was no such thing… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“For time to pass it would have to go somewhere, and where would that be? Time sits. We move, it sits. Sometimes it trembles… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
There are two sides to me. One is the writer. That's a savage person who looks at everything as a story and, you know,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Our habit of wishing backward from what is to what might have been is the soft but persistent tapping that cracks the crystal.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends? — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the… — Walter Kirn 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
