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Quotes About Cunning

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.
~ Carol Shields, Unless
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
~ T. S. Eliot
Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
~ Henry Fielding
It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
~ Luc de Clapiers
An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile.
~ James Joyce
Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.
~ Cassandra Clare
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
~ Mark Twain
Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.
~ Peter Travers
There are two rules for sucess:1. Never tell everything you know.
~ Roger H. Lincoln
Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen
~ Lois Greiman, One Hot Mess
They say curiosity killed the cat but I am unconcerned. I am smarter, though slightly less evil, than any cat.
~ Eliza Crewe
When the hares have all been caught, the hunting dogs are cooked.
~ Laozi
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
~ Pablo Casals
My kittens look at me like little angels, and always after doing something especially devilish.
~ Jamie Ann Hunt
Blackmailers never explain their thinking. They're like pirates that way. Dark-hearted, dangerous--- and cool like Johnny Depp.
~ Janette Rallison
And he thought about the edge between the ninety percent and the ten percent. Sometimes that edge was cunning, and sometimes it was kind. Sometimes it was shabby. And sometimes it was heroic. But it was always mysterious. Definitely.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Corporate cunning has developed faster than the laws of nation and state," he remarked to the reporter Lindsay Denison. "Sooner or later, unless there is a readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement.
~ Edmund Morris
The flood became an embarrassment for Roosevelt. Did all these men imagine they were buying him? "Corporate cunning has developed faster than the laws of nation and state," he remarked to the reporter Lindsay Denison. "Sooner or later, unless there is a readjustment, there will come a riotous, wicked, murderous day of atonement.
~ Edmund Morris
The flood became an embarrassment for Roosevelt. Did all these men imagine they were buying him? "Corporate cunning has developed faster than the laws of nation and state
~ Edmund Morris
Nice," I tell him. "So you literally steal candy from babies.
~ Alex Wellen
Bloody bullocks, beggin' your pardon, gentlemen, but they'd take the wooden leg off a cripple to kindle a fire!
~ Alexander Kent
the devil has no more cunning way of securing a long lease of life for any evil than getting Christian people and Christian Churches to give it their sanction.
~ Alexander MacLaren