Cunning Quotes
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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Martin Luther -
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.
Edwin Paxton Hood
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake -
However political parties may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
George Washington -
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
Thomas Carlyle -
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 -
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
George William Curtis -
Nights are like the bottom of somewhere, a kind of seabed. As for the days, they have a cunning of their own.
Andrew Miller
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
Seneca the Younger -
A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton -
I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
Renee Vivien -
As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.
Charles Kellogg -
In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.
Daniel Guerin -
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Peter York