Quotes: Cunning
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This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Ancient Greek lyric poet
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
President of the United States from 2001 to 2009
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
French theologian and philosopher
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Greek philosopher (c. 427 - 348 BC)
Silence, exile, cunning and so on… it’s my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
American novelist, playwright and essayist
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time’s malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
American author and poet
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
English poet and artist (1757-1827)
I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
British poet who wrote in French