Quotes About Cunning

To get past a rival you have to be smart.

Wicked, and — of course, perceptive.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Come of it what may, as Sinon said.

Richard became obsessed with the rush and the feeling of power cocaine gave him. When he was on it, he felt strong, cunning, and invincible. Richard had seen Ruben using a needle since he was twelve, and it was an easy transformation from snorting cocaine to injecting it intravenously.

If we had a populist president who didn't alienate so many persuadable voters, who took full advantage of a strong economy, and who had the political cunning displayed by Modi or Benjamin Netanyahu or Viktor Orban, the liberal belief in a hidden left-of-center mandate might be exposed as a fond delusion.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.

They wrote in their reports that it proved him to be "cunning" and "manipulative" and also that he was suffering from "cognitive distortion" because he didn't believe he was mad.     Tony

Aprendió el arte vagabundo de los troperos. Aprendió el otro, más difícil, de mandar hombres; ambos lo ayudaron a ser un buen ladrón de hacienda.

Some have brains, and some haven't, ... and there it is.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

A state has never arisen from peaceful economic means, but always from the instinct to maintain the species--whether this instinct manifest itself in the heroic sphere, or in that of cunning craftiness. In the first case, we have the Aryan states, based on the principles of work and culture. In the second case, we have the Jewish parasitic colonies.

A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

The art of strategic decision- making includes a witty leap forward with high volition.

Honey-tongued, soft spoken, malicious, and unprincipled in conduct.

On every small pretext the wolf seizes the sheep.

The wolf bemoans the sheep, and then eats it.

Chanakya says that a person, who demands his rights, is greedy. A person, who places importance on beauty and make-up, is lustful. Foolish people by nature are not soft-spoken. Contrarily, persons who are frank and truthful do not have even an iota of cunning, deceit and craftiness.

I can bluff with the best of them.