Quotes About Cunning

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him, indeed they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

The cunning livery of hell.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy.

Win with ability, not with numbers.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

Know thy self, know thy enemy.

In war, practice dissimulation and you will succeed.

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

Peeta. How Foxface stole the food from the supply pile before I blew it up, how she tried to take enough to stay alive but not enough that anyone would notice it, how she wouldn't

More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known, told the author their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.

fracasso é um trapaceiro com um aguçado senso de ironia e astúcia.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning.

their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them. Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one up when success is almost within reach.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Don't complain too loud about wrongs done you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.

Oh, how stubbornly does love,—or even that cunning semblance of love which flourishes in the imagination, but strikes no depth of root into the heart,—how stubbornly does it hold its faith until the moment comes when it is doomed to vanish into thin mist!

sometimes through that alchemy of quiet malice, by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles;

On Andrew Jackson: His native strength compelled every man to be his tool that came within his reach; and the more cunning the individual might be, it served only to make him a sharper tool.

Oh, how stubbornly does love,—or even that cunning semblance of love which flourishes in the imagination, but strikes no depth of root into the heart,—how stubbornly does it hold its faith until the moment

Cunning people find other people to drown for them.