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Cunning Quotes

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

Authors on Cunning Quotes: Francois de La Rochefoucauld Benjamin Franklin William Shakespeare Jean de La Fontaine Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton William Rounseville Alger Horace Richard Steele Christian Nestell Bovee Jean de la Bruyere Samuel Johnson Eric Hoffer George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton Luc de Clapiers Sir Fulke Greville Alexander Pope Jiddu Krishnamurti Terry Pratchett George William Curtis Willis Regier Sydney J. Harris Anthony Hopkins John McCain Thomas Carlyle Donald Trump Herman Melville T. H. White Pedro Calderon de la Barca Oliver Goldsmith Walter Kirn King James I Renee Vivien
2.
To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
King James I

3.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake

4.
Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

5.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

7.
Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.
George William Curtis

8.
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
Richard Adams

9.
The fox is very cunning, but he is more cunning who catches the fox.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

10.
I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
Renee Vivien

11.
Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise
Benjamin Franklin

12.
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
Luc de Clapiers

13.
Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.
Benjamin Franklin

14.
The cunning livery of hell.
William Shakespeare

15.
I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
Anthony Hopkins

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

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

18.
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

19.
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

20.
Cunning is strength withheld.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.
Samuel Johnson

22.
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

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

24.
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
Benjamin Franklin

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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

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

27.
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.
Alexander Pope

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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

29.
Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn
Walter Kirn

30.
What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes.
Jean de La Fontaine

31.
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
T. H. White

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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

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Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing
Herman Melville

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

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Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Jane Austen

36.
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
Miguel de Cervantes

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

38.
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
William Rounseville Alger

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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

40.
I was an addict. That's why, ... I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy.
John McCain

41.
Wine is a cunning wrestler.
Plautus

42.
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

43.
Cunning authors cut to be quoted.
Willis Regier

44.
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.
Thomas Carlyle

45.
A cunning woman is a knavish fool.
George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

46.
But Death was cunning.
J. K. Rowling

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

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