Best 78 quotes in «cunning quotes» category

A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.

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.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

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.

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.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

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

I am a mediocre being, a bit 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.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

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

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

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.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much 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.

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

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

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 cunning livery of hell.

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

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

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 weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

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.

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.

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

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are wise to move away from dishonest schemers. Dishonesty comprise too of layers of lies simply casted for impressive appearances. There are times too that corrupt hearts have their own confused, modified, self-affirming, pro-self interest business inclined definition of "professional, integrity, dignified and pride.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

A cunning fox is better than a senseless leopard.

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