Quotes About Cunning

similar feat. A single deft stroke

While artificially intelligent, they lacked the creativity, boldness, and sneakiness of the devious human mind.

You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.

Listo es el que hace listezas.

Clever is as clever does.

First I would have tied up all the dragonmancers and stuffed them in a cellar full of rotten potatoes.

Those strokes of profound cunning, those little stratagems that had seemed individually so impenetrable, now in the mass took on a sadly imbecile appearance.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

Brava, my dear. Once a spy always a spy.

With such a small brain, I don't know how you made it this far.

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity." - Weisshaupt

The one thing I learned is that the Russians are some of the most cunning people on earth. They never do anything without a very good reason. And just because they're no longer a superpower doesn't mean they don't want to be again. - Oliver Stone

Quindi passeremo direttamente al massacro. - Che modo abile di esprimersi, Narasan.

The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.

Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove.

My lord, will you be true? Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault: Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity; Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit Is plain and true; there's all the reach of it.

Caliban: As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island.