Cunning Quotes
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If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
William Blake
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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
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
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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.
Francis Bacon
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I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
Rene Ricard
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
Thomas Carlyle
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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
Martin Luther
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Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
Richard Adams
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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
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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Peter York
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
George William Curtis
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A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
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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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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