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Cunning Quotes - Page 2

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

Christian Nestell Bovee
Cunning, Boast

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.

Charles Caleb Colton
Jesus, Cunning, Disciple
Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

Jean de la Bruyere
Littles, Conversation, Cunning

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.

Benjamin Franklin
Cold, Cunning
Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.15, Nayika Publishing

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

Walter Kirn
Quiet, Cunning
Walter Kirn (2006). “Mission to America”, p.3, Anchor

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

Sir Fulke Greville
Should, Cunning, Ready

Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?

Harper Lee
Hey, Cunninghams, Mockingbird
Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.125, Random House

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Ridiculous, Cunning, Appearing

The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

Alexander Pope
Lying, Dull, Cunning
Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.254

Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

T. H. White
Purpose, Belief, Cunning
T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.214, Penguin

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

Miguel de Cervantes
People, Cheat, Cunning

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.

Jean de La Fontaine
Men, Cunning, Brutes

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Jane Austen
Bears, Affinity, Cunning
Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.36, Lulu.com

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

Herman Melville
Madness, Cunning, Feline
Herman Melville (2012). “Moby-Dick”, p.155, Courier Corporation

The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Method, Deceived, Cunning

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.

Eric Hoffer
Devil, Subconscious, Cunning
Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Willis Regier
Cutting, Cunning
Willis Goth Regier (2010). “Quotology”, p.70, U of Nebraska Press

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

William Rounseville Alger
Dwarves, Cunning, Dwarfs

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.

Richard Steele
Art, People, Cunning
Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.331

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

Plautus
Wine, Wrestler, Cunning

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

John McCain
Addiction, Enemy, Cunning

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton
Women, Fool, Cunning
"Advice to a Lady". Poem by George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton, 1731.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Cunning, Cleverness, Misers

The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.

Dorothy L. Sayers
Spiritual, Devil, Cunning
Dorothy L. Sayers (2006). “The Poetry of Search and the Poetry of Statement: On Dante and Other Writers”, p.231, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Benjamin Franklin
Men, Thinking, Cunning Man
Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication”, p.65, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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