Best 78 quotes in «cunning quotes» category

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

See not the face.. but only the eyes, of the poker face.

Some bad friends are so crafty in such a way that by the time their mission is reveal, they have already executed portions of it.

Teddy risked a look backward and nodded as he handed Henry his hat. The two men shook hands and then walked past each other Teddy moving in the direction of Henry's room and Henry the hat pulled down over his face toward the Cutting carriage that was waiting by the curb.

There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion...

THE IVY GREEN Oh, a dainty plant is the Ivy green, That creepeth o’er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. The wall must be crumbled, the stone decayed, To pleasure his dainty whim; And the mouldering dust that years have made, Is a merry meal for him.        Creeping where no life is seen,        A rare old plant is the Ivy green.   Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no wings, And a staunch old heart has he. How closely he twineth, how tight he clings To his friend the huge Oak Tree! And slily he traileth along the ground, And his leaves he gently waves, As he joyously hugs and crawleth round The rich mould of dead men’s graves.       Creeping where grim death has been,      A rare old plant is the Ivy green. Whole ages have fled and their works decayed, And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. The brave old plant in its lonely days, Shall fatten upon the past; For the stateliest building man can raise, Is the Ivy’s food at last. Creeping on where time has been,        A rare old plant is the Ivy green.

The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it; and though his talents may not always be very brilliant, they are always perfectly genuine. He neither endeavours to impose upon you by the cunning devices of an artful impostor, nor by the arrogant airs of an assuming pedant, nor by the confident assertions of a superficial and imprudent pretender. He is not ostentatious even of the abilities which he really possesses. His conversation is simple and modest, and he is averse to all the quackish arts by which other people so frequently thrust themselves into public notice and reputation.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

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.

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

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.

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 differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

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

Cunning is strength withheld.

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

The cunning livery of hell.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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 weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

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