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Quotes about Cunning


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

Henry St. John Bolingbroke

Cunning is strength withheld.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

William Hazlitt

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Cynthia Ozick

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

Cunning men deal in generalizations.

American Proverb

There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan.

Francis Bacon

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Pierre Charron

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.

William Hazlitt

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Bible

So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.

William Shakespeare

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

George Crabbe

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

Bible

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Thomas Carlyle

Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

William Shakespeare

Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Charles De Gaulle

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Hans Christian Archilochus

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Pierre Charron

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Cynthia Ozick

Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.

Alexander Pope

Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.

Unattributed Author

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

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope

The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.

William Shakespeare

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