Quotes About Cunning

Stupidity is relatively harmless, but intelligent stupidity is highly dangerous

I may not be the strongest guy or the most well-armed, but you can put me in a room with a pencil and a piece of paper and I can kill anybody.

Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels.

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

He who laughs last is generally the one that thought fastest on his feet

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

The one thing you are not good at is playing dumb.

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!

What are wits for unless a man uses them?

Esme Rawlings is as intelligent as she is dissolute.

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

She seemed to listen to life as though life were the most cunning and charming of confidence men: knowing perfectly well that she was being conned, she, nevertheless, again and again, gave the man the money for the Brooklyn Bridge. She never gained possession of the bridge, of course, but she certainly learned how to laugh. And the tiny lines in her face had been produced as much by laughter as by loss.

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.

when the games going against you, stay calm - and cheat.

when the games going against you, stay calm - and cheat. - Flashman At The Charge

What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

The clever thing was to break the rules and stay alive all the same.