Quotes About Cunning

The Six Diseases: 1. The desire for victory. 2. The desire to resort to technical cunning. 3. The desire to display all that has been learned. 4. The desire to awe the enemy. 5. The desire to play the passive role. 6. The desire to get rid of whatever disease one is affected by.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing.

O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

es propio de gente cuerda y política, porque bien claro está que si ellas no lo quisiesen de veras nunca hubieran sido robadas.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts.

Sending Muskie against Nixon would have been like sending a three-toed sloth out to seize turf from a wolverine.

Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.

I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board

The newcomer struck him as an enterprising sort of man. The kind that would slit your throat for a box of tissues in your bag while you slept.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

I've got a few tricks when it comes to psychology and stuff.

I hope it's not all I'll ever do, but I know I've played enigmatic characters. For me, the good characters are people who get places, are devious, are cunning and tricky and hard to pin down. Obviously, if you play one and you do an okay job of it, that'll be on people's minds.

Obviously if you're playing some of the smartest men in the world, you want to sound really smart.

In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.

Evil is at its boldest when it walks an unerring path.

Every worthwhile plan is diabolical.

Awful things, children. Needy, self-centered tyrants, the boys all teeth and firsts, the girls all claws and spit. Gathering into sniveling packs and sniffing out vulnerabilities — and woe to the child not cunning enough to hide their own — the others would close in like the grubby shark they were. Great pastime, savaging someone.

Why are dumb brutes so damned smart, anyway?' 'Why are us smart folk so often stupidly brutal, Quick Ben?' Trull asked. 'Stop trying to confuse me in my state of animal terror, Edur.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

As I said, he danced on both sides of the coin; master on intrigue and cunning and devoted lover to a damaged man.