Quotes About Cunning

Goo goo," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of "I'm going to pretend I'm a helpless baby, instead of answering your question.

Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.

Lemony Snicket

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Undoubtedly," replied Darcy, to whom this remark was chiefly addressed, "there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Kurnazl??a yak?n her ?ey basitliktir.

Catherine's motto could well have been that genius is a long patience. With the successive reigns of her sons came her chance to show the world how they had underestimated this disregarded queen. What Catherine lacked in beauty she made up for in intelligence, cunning and family ambition.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

The Russians were a nation of stage managers, Kennan wrote at the end of the war, and their deepest conviction was that things are not what they are, but only what they seemed to be.

a 'dodgy politician' and a 'cynical manipulator'. 'He's clever enough to deceive people without them knowing it

They are more cunning than practical. When they make up their ledger, they balance stupidity by wealth, and vice by hypocrisy.

It can be seductive and cunning. Darkness wears many faces, and some of those faces can seem, at first, like allies.

liberally equipped with one-way pockets

If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood. The best you can hope for is to make the sucker float.

The whole construct of my universe was a cunning, entangled network of lies. I had to start over again. I knew that. And I had to begin by ceasing to loathe myself for my difference from the rest.

If your parents disapprove of you and are cunning with their disapproval, there will never come a new dawn when you can become convinced of your own value. There is no fixing a damaged childhood.

Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth.

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Sting the mamba with his own venom, pull down the lion with his own claws, deceive the clever chacma baboon with his own trickery.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.