Cunning Quotes

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

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

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

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

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

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

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

The cunning livery of hell.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if he has but prudence.

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.

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

Cunning is strength withheld.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

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

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

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

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

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

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.

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

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

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

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

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

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

The media are very smart, they're very cunning, and they're very dishonest.

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

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

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

But Death was cunning.