Cunning Quotes

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.

Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.

This is the great evil in wine, it first seizes the feet; it is a cunning wrestler. [Lat., Magnum hoc vitium vino est, Pedes captat primum; luctator dolosu est.]

I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds.

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

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

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

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

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

Cunning to wise, is as an Ape to a Man.

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

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.

I suggest to you, late or not late, the moment you have discovered that the mission of someone is to pee on your dreams, keep him away or keep away from him.

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

Depend upon it, he who wishes to win the prize must come on the principle that two and two make four.

Bad people often end up as heroes.

Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.

A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies.

True evil is unlikely to receive an invitation from us, so it clothes itself in just enough truth to make itself look appealing and then it looks to unpeel us.

Crying is good for the soul, or so they say.

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

Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!

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.

Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you aren’t an entrepreneur.

Oh, hey, kettle, I’m pot and wow, you’re black.” - Owen

Innocence has a grace which intelligence lacks!

I’m not a serpent, Father. I’m a crow.