Cunning Quotes
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning. (Quote by - William Blake)
And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, / The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father. (Quote by - Bible)
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. (Quote by - Georges Bernanos)
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Cunning.. is but the low mimic of wisdom. (Quote by - Plato)
Pat Riley did a good job of bringing in some nice, cunning veterans, .. Even though they're big-name players, they're very, very unselfish. I don't see us having problems. (Quote by - Shaquille O'Neal)
From a dog's point of view his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. (Quote by - Mabel L. Robinson)
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. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
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. (Quote by - George Savile)
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
That [criminal] activity that he did was done thoughtfully, cunningly by him. (Quote by - Steven Decker)
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less. (Quote by - Francis Bacon Sr.)
Bribes throw Dust into cunning Men's eyes. (Quote by - Proverb)
Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man. (Quote by - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice. (Quote by - Buddha)
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The security has let us down badly here. The department is obviously very embarrassed by this. Cole is cunning and he is a great threat to the public. (Quote by - Ian McLean)
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. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
And he made in Jerusalem engines, invented by cunning men, to be on the towers and upon the bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones withal. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he was strong. (Quote by - Bible)
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it. (Quote by - Richard Weaver)
could charm the eyes off a rattlesnake. She was smart and cunning. (Quote by - Robert Blake)
Cunning is strength withheld. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work. (Quote by - Bible)
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
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. (Quote by - Lydia M. Child)
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.". (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is respelled by it. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books contain a person, and they want the person, not the book. (Quote by - Anthony Burgess)
Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
Others take a more pragmatic view, at least of the failed CIA operation. It didn't succeed. It's not the first time, .. It's a very tough thing to throw a man out of power especially one as crafty and cunning as Saddam Hussein. (Quote by - Lee Hamilton)
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning. (Quote by - William Blake)
It's a tough disease. It's powerful, baffling and cunning. (Quote by - Charisse Strawberry)
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others. (Quote by - Pierre Charron)
Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield. Nature's, not honour's, law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away, And by a prudent flight and cunning save a life, which valour could not, from. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. (Quote by - John Tillotson)
You're asking the most cunning, secretive and diabolical type of felon to be part of the honor system. It's always been befuddling to me. (Quote by - Andy Kahan)
Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. (Quote by - Mikhail Lermontov)
The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Among men the barber is cunning; among birds the crow; among beasts the jackal; and among women, the malin (flower girl)
. (Quote by - Chanakya)
And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work. (Quote by - Bible)
For the most part, we don't know anything about the Master. We don't even know his name or biography, but we feel like we know everything about him. Why? Because Bulgakov so cunningly constructed him, we automatically add to him every minute without knowing it. (Quote by - Marietta Chudakova)
And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it. (Quote by - Bible)
We were conned by cunning fraudsters into believing that two people frolicking together on a poor quality film were the Princess of Wales and her former lover James Hewitt. (Quote by - Stuart Higgins)
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review. (Quote by - Edward Dahlberg)
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them. (Quote by - Bible)
Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair. (Quote by - Charles Palmer)
And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen. (Quote by - Bible)
This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.". (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. (Quote by - Sappho)
And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; / And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; / And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, / And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work. (Quote by - Bible)
If I thought he'd been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. (Quote by - Bible)
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: / And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. (Quote by - Bible)
And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them. (Quote by - Bible)
Cunning men deal in generalizations. (Quote by - American Proverb)
And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen. (Quote by - Bible)
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds. (Quote by - J. B. Phillips)
And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work. (Quote by - Bible)
I have so much respect for him and what he brings to the court, his tenacity out there, his numerous abilities, foot speed, his shot selection, his cunning on the court. (Quote by - Jim Courier)
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities / courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning / whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage. (Quote by - Jean Baudrillard)
More are taken in by hope than by cunning. (Quote by - Luc De Clapiers)
Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work. (Quote by - Bible)
Job-related crimes have been rampant in some industries and government sections over the past years, but the amount of money has risen, crimes are committed more cunningly and more officials are absconding with large sums of public fund. (Quote by - Jia Chunwang)
Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom. (Quote by - Henry St. John Bolingbroke)
I thought the whole thing was so hilarious. I thought a film could show how ridiculous (corrupt executives) are. They are very cunning but also very stupid. (Quote by - Claude Chabrol)
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now / History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues. (Quote by - T.S. Eliot)
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?. (Quote by - Pablo Casals)
The child learns to worship money and the things which money can buy; he admires cruelty and cunning, rather than Sympathy and Love. So, the Home, the School and the Society have to rise and take up this challenge posed to the future of this great land. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him. (Quote by - Francis Bacon Sr.)
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning, yelling works better. (Quote by - Cynthia Ozick)
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. (Quote by - Ovid)
The greatest cunning is to have none at all. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically inexpedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight. (Quote by - Bible)
Koizumi has been very cunning and sly by showing this drama as reform-minded forces versus old-fashioned forces. (Quote by - Takao Toshikawa)
Watchfulness is the only guard against cunning. Be intent on his intentions. Many succeed in making others do their own affairs, and unless you possess the key to their motives you may at any moment be forced to take their chestnuts out of the fire to the damage of your own fingers. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
It's a mammoth task. We don't have the resources in terms of our treasury departments, we don't have financial investigators who even think in a crafty, cunning way. (Quote by - Magnus Ranstorp)
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine. (Quote by - Sean O'Casey)
Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men. (Quote by - Bible)
Japan is now hell-bent on grasping countries for their purpose of adopting this resolution through dirty, cunning method and plot. (Quote by - Choe Myong Nam)
Cunning is a short blanket - if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet. (Quote by - Proverb)
Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work. (Quote by - Bible)
If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. (Quote by - Peter York)
These incidents are definitely not always out in the open. We found that the targets view the instigators as cunning, that they might choose the setting for this to happen where they know others won't be able to see it. (Quote by - Christine Pearson)
When we say ‘our rulers', we mean those who are engaged in the manipulation of symbols. We must consider ourselves a symbolic, semantic class of life, and cannot cease from being so… those who control the symbols rule us.(Quote by - Bankers, priests, lawyers,… politicians, [and news media] constitute one class [of our rulers] and work together. They do not produce any values but manipulate the values produced by others, and often pass signs for no value at all. Scientists and teachers also comprise a ruling class. They produce the main values mankind has, but, at present, they do not realize this. They are, in the main, ruled by the cunning methods of the first class. )
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Over the past year, work-related crime in some areas and industries has occurred in large numbers. The amount of money has risen and the methods are ever-more cunning. (Quote by - Jia Chunwang)
Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.". (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. (Quote by - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. (Quote by - Strom Thurmond)
He's a very cunning character. (Quote by - Ken Conboy)
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. (Quote by - Bible)
Tall, bald, and pouch-eyed, with a velvet voice, a droll wit and the face of a cunning bloodhound a performer who made audiences twitter and roar with subtle ease. (Quote by - Robert D. McFadden)
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? / Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide. (Quote by - Bible)
The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting. (Quote by - Arundhati Roy)
