Quotes About Cunning

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

Lesson number one: Don't underestimate the other guy's greed.

You know, I used to warm the thermometer on the light bulb... I was really good at being sick. I could forge my mother's signature on a sick note so well I was hardly ever at school.

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

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.

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

If a lion invites you home for dinner, it is you he wants to serve as a meal to his guests.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Just because you may be a Genious, does not mean you are Smart.

Not every smile is genuine some are just the bared fangs of wolves about to eat you - rjs

This blue one's a smart'un. See how he puffs out his gut so you won't cinch him tight? And then the saddle falls off later and you with it." Cloyd laughed. "Better not let him hear you . . ." "He thinks he's fooled us," Walter whispered. He turned away as if he was done, then winked and quickly cinched in a few more notches. "I wasn't born yesterday," he said.

What cannot be won by force of arms can often be achieved through cunning, deceit, or by a concealed blade slipped into an enemy's back. —Nicolai

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [...] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.

Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender; the mind is very cunning and calculating.

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.

A good liar must have a good memory.

The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses...It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart.

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.