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 easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Pierre Charron
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Mikhail Lermontov
Alexander Pope 
Iris Murdoch 
Aldous Huxley 
Mikhail Lermontov 
Thomas Carlyle 
Francis Beaumont 
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman 
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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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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
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