Quotes About Cunning

No matter how good you are, this world is always going to be better at this game. It's more cunning than you are, it's faster and it's a whole lot more ruthless. All you can do is try to keep up, know your weak spots and never stop expecting the sucker punch.

and cunning fools, without learning, without a sense of universal responsibility, and without exaltation. I foresee a time when America will have

You sparkle with larceny.

Being a physical specimen doesn't mean you're any good at playing inside. Positioning, using your head, the mental stuff - that's my game. That's what makes a good inside player.

The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.

I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

Men are so stupid and concerned with their present needs, they will always let themselves be deceived.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

The common man, no matter how sharp and tough, actually enjoys having the wool pulled over his eyes, and makes it easier for the puller.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

Ty got the feeling, from cues in the Teklan's physique and general style of movement, that he was some manner of Snake Eater.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

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

Men are so simple, and governed so absolutely by their present needs, that he who wishes to deceive will never fail in finding willing dupes.

From this one can derive a general rule which rarely, if ever, fails: that anyone who is the cause of another becoming powerful comes to ruin himself; because that power has been brought about by him either through cunning or by force; and both of these two qualities are suspect to the one who has become powerful.

But since a Prince should know how to use the beast's nature wisely, he ought of beasts to choose both the lion and the fox; for the lion cannot guard himself from the toils, nor the fox from wolves. He must therefore be a fox to discern toils, and a lion to drive off wolves.

É necessário a um príncipe saber usar do animal com destreza, dentre todos ele deve escolher a raposa e o leão, pois o leão não pode defender-se de armadilhas, e a raposa é indefesa diante dos lobos; é preciso, pois ser raposa para conhecer as armadilhas e leão para afugentar os lobos - aqueles que simplesmente adotam o leão não entendem do assunto.

Sono tanto semplici gli uomini, e tanto ubbidiscono alle necessità presenti, che colui che inganna, troverà sempre chi si lascerà ingannare.

it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.