King James I
King
"To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning."
Cunning quotes
Cunning
48 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
William Blake
Poet, Painter
"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity."
T. S. Eliot
Poet, Playwright
"History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues."
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"Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed."
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"Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise"
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"Cunning proceeds from want of capacity."
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"The cunning livery of hell."
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"Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity."
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"Cunning is strength withheld."
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"Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day."
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"Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth."
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"The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest."
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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."
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"The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others."
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"Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable."
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"What is denominated discretion in man we call cunning in brutes."
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"Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially."
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"Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?"
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"Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish."
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"But Death was cunning."
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