Quotes About Cunning

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

Always presume that the enemy has dangerous designs and always be forehanded with the remedy. But do not let these calculations make your timid.

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

I'm very good at manipulation.

Sidharth Shukla is very manipulative.

You cannot rob robbers with a kitten in your hat!

Writing was bad for the soul when you got right down to it. It protected your worst tendencies. Narrowed everything to failure and its devastations. Gave your cunning an edge of treachery and your jellyfish heart a reason to fall deeper into silence.

Patta's expression seemed cordial enough, though from past experience Brunetti knew this was meaningless: vipers liked to bask on rocks in the sunshine, did they not?

Whatever else one may say about guilt, it certainly lends one diabolical powers of invention;

The devil approached the citadel of his heart by stealth, with many zigzags and parallels.

But it was option three that won out. Always one to savor new adventures, I opted to bathe Oscar the old-fashioned way — shampoo and water, in the shower. Weighing the situation, I concluded that Oscar had the advantage of quickness, cunning, claws that could remove all skin from my body, and a lack of concern for human life. I had the element of surprise, strength, and the advantage of battlefield selection.

I might have been slight-but I was smart and cagey.

I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!

Rest now, in the peace of the wild things. May the swan be your pillow, may the gold owl bring you visions. May the red fox gift you cunning, and the wolf bring you courage. And may the white horse lend her strength to all your days.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool.

C'est que le Diable est bien malin; c'est qu'il n'est pas toujours si laid qu'on le dit.

but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

I was happy thinking only about letters and suddenly they began to compose into something, so dangerous when they get together. But at bottom they are careless. Childish. A, B, H, M, O, . . . so rare X. The Z, an amnesiac, ing in decline, his twin brother S with all the cunning of a usurper.

Men are so simple, and yield so much to necessity, that he who will deceive may always find him that will lend himself to be deceived.

he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.

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