Best 78 quotes in «cunning quotes» category

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him. People are aware that this low-bred fellow, who deserves to be pilloried, has, by the dirtiest jobs, made his way in the world; and that the splendid position he has acquired makes merit repine and virtue blush. Yet whatever dishonourable epithets may be launched against him everywhere, nobody defends his wretched honour. Call him a rogue, an infamous wretch, a confounded scoundrel if you like, all the world will say “yea, ” and no one contradicts you. But for all that, his bowing and scraping are welcome everywhere; he is received, smiled upon, and wriggles himself into all kinds of society; and, if any appointment is to be secured by intriguing, he will carry the day over a man of the greatest worth. Zounds! these are mortal stabs to me, to see vice parleyed with; and sometimes times I feel suddenly inclined to fly into a wilderness far from the approach of men.

Would you like to sit?" Kellen asked her. "You'd better do it soon," Owen whispered close to her ear, "or I'm going to bend you over that table and break the club's no-penetration-in-the-lounge rule.

You have asked me what I would do and what I would not do. I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use— silence, exile, and cunning.

Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the weak and oppressed against the strength of their tyrants.

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

All substances the cunning chemist Time Melts down into that liquor of my life.

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

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

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

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

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 is the dwarf of wisdom.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

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

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Cunning is strength withheld.

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

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

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

I am a mediocre being, a bit 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.

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

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

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

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

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.

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.

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

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

The cunning livery of hell.

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

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

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

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.

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

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.