Top Cunning Quotes
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Don DeLillo
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
George W. Bush
Titus Maccius Plautus 
Strom Thurmond 
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Alexander Pope All Cunning Quotes
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Peter York 
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Titus Maccius Plautus
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Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley
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Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Ovid
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Lydia M. Child
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch
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Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
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