Cunning Quotes
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The best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
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Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
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We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
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The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
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I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
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Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
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The cunning livery of hell.
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
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Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.
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Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
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There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
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A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
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Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
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In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.
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Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.
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If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
