(32 quotes found)
“The weak in courage is strong in cunning.”
William Blake
“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
“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
“If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.”
“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
“In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning, yelling works better”
Cynthia Ozick
“The greatest cunning is to have none at all”
Carl Sandburg
“Never suffer your courage to exert itself in fierceness, your resolution in obstinacy, your wisdom in cunning, nor your patience in sullenness and despair.”
Charles Palmer
“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.”
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