Quotes About Cunning

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Evil or manipulative people don't need a book, they just do it anyway.

One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who simply act like lions are stupid.

Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

What the devil's wrong with devious? Devious gets the job done, doesn't it?

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

You gain power by pretending to be weak.

Although slothful and ignorant, the enlisted men are cunning and devious and bear watching at all times,'" Doc said.

This is a terrible plan," he says to Han Solo—Solo, who crouches down so as not to be seen. Han Solo, the jerk. The very handsome, very charismatic jerk. "And I hate you very much.

Golathan gets a mean look. Vulpine. Vicious. Like he's about to tear a chicken into wet gobbets and red feathers.

Talibus insidiis periurique arte Sinonis credita res, captique dolis lacrimisque coactis, quos neque Tydides, nec Larisaeus Achilles, non anni domuere decem, non mille carinae.

I ask now, standing with my scissors among my flowers, Where can the shadow enter? [. . .] I am sick of the body, I am sick of my own craft, industry and cunning, of the unscrupulous ways of the mother who protects, who collects under her jealous eyes at one long table her own children, always her own.

What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers?

By this time I was in a state of excitement bordering on insanity; but I also had the cunning of the insane.

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists: cunningly leading them on; never letting them see that you know all the tricks of the trade; inventing for them elaborate dreams, pure classics in style (which make them, the dream-extortionists, dream and wake up shrieking); teasing them with fake "primal scenes"; and never allowing them the slightest glimpse of one's real sexual predicament

Il était malin, celui qui a inventé ce truc-là

I am a pickpocket, not a burglar.

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

Look we didn't break in, we conned our way in.' - Ruby 'Oh that makes it so much better.' - Hitch

being. I find it's important to keep on your toes with English people because they're fucking devious while they blandly polite you to death.

There is in a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.

The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those 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.

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.

As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death.