quotes about Cunning
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The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
-- Alexander Pope -
I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
-- Carl Sandburg -
The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.
-- Eric Hoffer -
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Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
-- George William Curtis -
Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
-- Horace -
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
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Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -
To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
-- King James I -
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
-- Norm MacDonald -
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
-- Paul Davies -
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The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca -
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We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
-- Sir Fulke Greville -
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
-- T. H. White -
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
-- T. S. Eliot -
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
-- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron LytteltonSource : "Advice to a Lady". Poem by George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, 1731.
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