Cunning Quotes
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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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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
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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.
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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.
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All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
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A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
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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.
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
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Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
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If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
