Cunning Quotes
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.
It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.
And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.
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.
Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
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.
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.
The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.
The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?
Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.
The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."
To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
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.
Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what looks like cunning.
If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill, and concentration.
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.