Quotes About Cunning

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

To me, throwback means I'm a smart player. I know how to play the game. I'm very skilled. I do a lot of things that other people don't do.

Sredni Vashtar went forth,His thoughts were red thoughts and his teeth were white.His enemies called for peace, but he brought them death.Sredni Vashtar the Beautiful.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

Soytar? olan ben de?ilim, delili?ini gizlemek için ciddiyet oyunu oynayan, ?u akl?n mant???n almayaca?? ölçüde sinsi, bönlü?ünden bile habersiz toplum.

I've heard old cunning stagers Say, fools for arguments use wagers.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

A knave thinks himself a fool, all the time he is not making a fool of some other person.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

Nowhere on the planet, nowhere in history, was there a regime more vicious, more bloodthirsty, and at the same time more cunning than the Bolshevik, the self-styled Soviet regime.

Unless it was an elaborate double-bluff on Wayne's part and it was so obvious as to be not obvious at all Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Christ, it was too early in the morning for this sort of mental gymnastics.

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.

He was not a man by any means habitually intemperate, and now any one saying that he was tipsy would have maligned him. But he was flushed with much wine, and he was a man whose arrogance in that condition was apt to become extreme. "In vino veritas!" The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

Chorus [of Birds]: Man is a truly cunning creature.

I have taken to living by my wits.

Holmes, you have an answer to everything

Professor Moriarty is not a man who lets the grass grow under his feet.

Well, well," said he, at last. "It is, of course, possible that a cunning man might change the tires of his bicycle in order to leave unfamiliar tracks. A criminal who was capable of such a thought is a man whom I should be proud to do business with.

Goes with the whole King of the Badasses. Kind of hard to lead an army of the damned if I'm the King of Nice -Stryker

baseball is a game played by the dexterous, but only understood by the Poindexterous."9

ODYSSEUS             I cannot recommend a rigid spirit.