Best 78 quotes in «cunning quotes» category

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Cunning is strength withheld.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

The cunning livery of hell.

The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

The media are very smart, they're very cunning, and they're very dishonest.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

A cunning fox is better than a senseless leopard.

AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux. ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien.

Bad people often end up as heroes.

Be blessed with an honest character, true heart. Wise, dignified people who value honesty stir away from dishonest, corrupt schemers. Great reward is not on titles, position, appearances, status or richness but the peace of one's heart and service to humanity. Peace of one's heart can mean far and away and not falling into any Machiavellian trap.

behind every smile there is a cunning face