Top 25 Cunning Quotes of 48

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

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

Sydney J. Harris

Damage Is Done, History Repeats Itself, Cunning

Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

King James I

Foxes, Cunning, Effects

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

William Blake

Strong, Weak, Cunning

William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.171, Psychology Press

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Clever, Convenience, Cunning

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Francis Bacon

Cat, Men, Cunning Man

Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.334

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Incapacity, Cunning, Treachery

A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men, Cunning Man, Half

Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.52

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Play, Cunning Man

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

T. S. Eliot

Issues, History, Cunning

"Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Foxes, Cunning

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

George William Curtis

Hands, Cunning, Stratagem

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

Richard Adams

People, Tricks, Cunning

Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.36, Oneworld Publications

Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.

Azzedine Alaia

Fashion, Cunninghams, Bills

"Alaïa's Not Lagerfeld's Biggest Fan" by Britt Aboutaleb, www.elle.com. June 23, 2011.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

Benjamin Franklin

Wise, Silly, Cunning

Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

The cunning livery of hell.

William Shakespeare

Hell, Cunning

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.105