Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Cunning is strength withheld.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Cunning men deal in generalizations.
There is a cunning which we in England call the turning of the cat in the pan.
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
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?
The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here.
Doubt not but God who sits on high, Thy secret prayers can hear; When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
The cunning livery of hell. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.