(32 quotes found)
“Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.”
Ovid
“Cunning is a short blanket - if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet”
Proverb
“The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.”
Pierre Charron
“That [criminal] activity that he did was done thoughtfully, cunningly by him.”
Steven Decker
“These incidents are definitely not always out in the open. We found that the targets view the instigators as cunning, that they might choose the setting for this to happen where they know others won't be able to see it.”
Christine Pearson
“Cunning is strength withheld.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.”
“Japan is now hell-bent on grasping countries for their purpose of adopting this resolution through dirty, cunning method and plot.”
Choe Myong Nam
“One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.”
