Quotes About Cunning

Like medicine, truth could be used as a poison by someone cunning enough.

I lied to you and it was easy, because you believe everybody means what they say. Everyone's lying to you, Neverfell. Everyone. And you can't tell, because you're just not very bright when it comes to people. Brighten up fast, or you're done for.

Show me how clever you can be, Faith.

For Satan's deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.

The Jap merely smiled and replied, "We Japanese know to the exact degree the extent of human endurance. Before you are liberated, you will learn that. You will see that we know how to beat a man to within an inch of his life and when one more blow will kill him. We also know how many grains of rice are required for a prisoner to live and work for one day." In the year that

Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

So imagination crowns the experience of my hands. And they learned their cunning from the wise hand of another, which, itself guided by imagination, led me safely in paths that I knew not, made darkness light before me, and made crooked ways straight.

The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?

All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

A girl should never be stupid unless she is pretending to be stupid to save her own life," Lina said.

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Good sense appears the most underhand of tactics to a man who has no reserves of his own to draw upon.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

When you dig a hole, be smarter than the shovel.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

Me no read. Look how smart me is.

The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

TO be practical not merely means to steal when everybody steals but to act with wits and wisdom...

Mrs Slagg placed her finger at her lips and gave a smile which it would be impossible to describe. It was a mixture of the cunning and the maudlin.