Cunning famous quotes

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

#Lying #Dull #Cunning

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
-- Anthony Hopkins

#Cunning

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
-- Carl Sandburg

#Integrity #Intelligence #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 #Cunning #Subconscious

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Want #Capacity #Cunning

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
-- George William Curtis

#Hands #Cunning

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
-- Horace

#Caught #Cunning #Disguise

What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

#Men #Cunning #Brutes

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

#Clever #Convenience #Cunning

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

#Foxes #Cunning

A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
-- Norm MacDonald

#Deceiving #Cunning

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

#Cancer #Agendas #Cunning

The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#Foxes #Cunning

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
-- Plato

#Philosophical #Lows #Cunning

Wine is a cunning wrestler.
-- Plautus

#Wine #Wrestler #Cunning

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
-- Renee Vivien

#Mediocre #Cunning

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

Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
-- T. H. White

#Purpose #Belief #Cunning

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
-- T. S. Eliot

#Issues #History #Cunning

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn
-- Walter Kirn

#Quiet #Cunning

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
-- William Blake

#Strong #Weak #Cunning

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
-- William Rounseville Alger

#Dwarves #Cunning

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
-- George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

#Women #Fool #Cunning

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.
-- Willis Regier

#Cutting #Cunning