Quotes About Cunning

There's always a way out for those clever enough to find it. -Athena

When strength doesn't work," Zeus said, trickery might.

I'd have to play this smart … which was not my usual style.

Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged." She

We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.

If I thought he'd been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him

Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;Who covers faults, at last shame them derides.

The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest.

O! what authority and show of truthCan cunning sin cover itself withal.

I'll prove more trueThan those that have more cunning to be strange.

Springes to catch woodcocks.

The cunning livery of hell.

What the critics saw from book to book—but failed to detect as a linkage among all of them—was Steinbeck's anger. He was America's most pissed-off writer. "All his work," Gray wrote, "steams with indignation at injustice, with contempt for false piety, with scorn for the cunning and self-righteousness of an economic system that encourages exploitation, greed, and brutality.

You might not be the smartest feller in town, but you've got more sense than most people.

Brain of Britain!" "If

The public regards lawyers with great distrust. They think lawyers are smarter than the average guy but use their intelligence deviously. Well, they're wrong. Usually they are not smarter.

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Sound intelligence promises victory in every battle.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

If you have a fish intelligence, you will be easily trapped in the net.

Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.

Discretion is a synonym for intelligence.