Cunning Quote by William Shakespeare

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

— William Hazlitt

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

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Anonymous

“You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less…

— John Ruskin

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

It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed…

— Buddha

Cunning is strength withheld.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson

The shame of fools conceals their open wounds. [Lat., Stultorum incurata malus pudor ulcera celat.]

— Horace

Fools through false shame, conceal their open wounds.

— Horace