“If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.”
William Blake
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
“If I thought he'd been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.”
William Shakespeare
“Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.”
Charles de Gaulle
“The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest.”
“CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."”
Ambrose Bierce
“And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.”
Bible