Top Cunning Quotes
Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Don DeLillo
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
William Blake
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
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.
George W. Bush
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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.
Giorgos Seferis 
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman
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I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet
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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile
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Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
John Tillotson
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