Quotes About Cunningly

Reflection is and remains the hardest creditor in existence; hitherto it has cunningly bought up all the possible views of life, but it cannot buy the essentially religious and eternal view of life.

I am a little world made cunninglyOf elements, and an angelic sprite.

Another whispered low to his fellow, and said, "He is mistaken, for it is rather like an illusion created by some Sorcerer, as conjurers do at those great feasts." Of sundry doubts did they thus chatter and debate, as ignorant people are wont to do about things that are crafted more cunningly than they can comprehend in their ignorance, and they usually expect the worst.

And the black abolitionist James McCune Smith noted that even if Congress passed a constitutional amendment forbidding slavery, "the word slavery will, of course be wiped from the statute book, but the 'ancient relation' can be just as well maintained by cunningly devised laws.

yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.

Though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.

The things I will invent will be, I suspect, mundane by comparison with the truth. And as I said, it's my intention that you should not know the difference. I plan to interweave the elements of my story so cunningly that you'll cease to even care whether an event happened out there in the same world where you walk, or in here, in the head of a crippled man who will never again move from his stepmother's house.

It is astonishing how cunningly life prepares for its explosions, how adroitly it combines the niter, the charcoal, the sulphur of human nature.