Art Quote by William Hazlitt

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

— Plato

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

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

— Lord Chesterfield

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

— Jean de la Bruyere

Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

— Austin O'Malley

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

— William Rounseville Alger

Cunning is strength withheld.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

— Anonymous

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

— Henry Home, Lord Kames

Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed. Discretion has large and extended views, and, like a…

— Joseph Addison

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

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

— William Shakespeare