Cunning Quotes
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The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.
Lao Tzu
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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.
William Shakespeare
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Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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.
Francis Bacon
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The cunning livery of hell.
William Shakespeare
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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
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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.
William Shakespeare
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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
Francis Bacon
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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.
John Arbuthnot
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The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.
William Shakespeare
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Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.
William Penn
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Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
T. H. White
