Top 100 Cunning'st Quotes
#1. I can again thy former light restore,
Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relume.
William Shakespeare
#2. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.
Terry Pratchett
#4. You're like Mr. Romance and Mr. Porn Star wrapped in one.
Olivia Cunning
#5. If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill and concentration.
David Mitchell
#6. It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.
Woodrow Wilson
#7. Guys like you don't usually talk to girls like me. Girls like me don't get invited to prom. Guys don't make fools of themselves for girls like me. Girls like me are ignored. Invisible. But I'm not a girl anymore. I'm a woman. Thanks for reminding me.
Olivia Cunning
#8. I glory, more in the cunning purchase of my wealth than in the glad possession.
Ben Jonson
#9. If you disrespect my woman like that again, I'll kick your fuckin' ass. You won't get back up.
Olivia Cunning
#10. Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate.
Richard Adams
#11. I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can actually get from somebody when they're not expressing. They can do a lot of attitude, just within their body movements.
Roberto Orci
#12. In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
Cynthia Ozick
#13. None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.
Lydia M. Child
#15. As they sang the hobbit felt in love of beautiful things made by hands and by cunning and by magic moving through him, a fierce and a jealous love, the desire of the hearts of dwarves.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#16. Sometimes a beautiful woman just needs a hard, slow fuck against a wall with a perfect stranger. I understand.
Olivia Cunning
#17. We are one, you and I. Brothers in hate, brothers in cunning, brothers in the spirit of vengeance.
Rick Yancey
#18. I like you, period."
"I like you, exclamation point.
Olivia Cunning
#19. Rain poured over its roofs and gurgled out of its gargoyles, although one or two of the more cunning ones had scuttled off to shelter among the maze of tiles.
Terry Pratchett
#20. What's wrong, Eric? Aggie asked.
"He got his period,"Trey said.
Olivia Cunning
#21. If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
William Blake
#22. I felt betrayed, as if what we shared on our journey to the Iron King was only a farce, a tactic the cunning Ice prince had used to get me to come to the Unseelie Court. Or perhaps he had just grown tired of me and moved on. Just another reminder of how capricious and insensitive the fey could be.
Julie Kagawa
#23. There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.
Francis Bacon
#24. Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#25. The authorities? The authorities?" I laughed. "Why is it people think the authorities are some form of gods with either great justice or great, cunning evil, rather than the same plodding fools they see in their daily lives, and most of all in their mirrors?
Richard Ben Sapir
#26. What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers?
Virginia Woolf
#27. Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.
Thomas Paine
#28. Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way, and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.
Herman Melville
#31. Lozen is my right hand ... strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.
Victorio
#32. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
Abraham Lincoln
#33. I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.
Gretchen Rubin
#34. In the world of oratory, the cunning atheist declares himself a believer so as to preserve access to the rich fund of tales from religious texts and to powerful concepts like God, fate, angels, the soul, & the afterlife.
Agona Apell
#35. She wanted that - what Sed and Jessica had. And she wanted it with Jace.
Olivia Cunning
#36. This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Plautus
#37. In time," he said with a sigh, "I found a woman in a lowly hut, a cunning woman, a healer, such a thing as men call a witch and a hag. Hesketh was her name. She was a prisoner of hideousness as was I.
Anne Rice
#38. BARABAS: A reaching thought will search his deepest wits,
And cast with cunning for the time to come;
For evils are apt to happen every day.
Christopher Marlowe
#39. You fuckin' rock, baby," he murmured.
"You rock at fuckin', baby.
Olivia Cunning
#40. Special Forces guys were usually small. They were usually lean, fast, and whippy. Built for endurance and stamina and full of smarts and cunning. Like foxes, not like bears.
Lee Child
#41. This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#42. Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
#43. Lada looked up into her father's eyes, deep-set and etched with years of cunning and cruelty. She nodded, then held out her hand. "The daughter of Wallachia wants her knife back."
Vlad smiled and gave it to her.
Kiersten White
#44. Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
James Russell Lowell
#46. Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.
Cesare Pavese
#47. You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.
Donald Rumsfeld
#48. Fashion is everywhere and about everything. It is folly, vanity and the fun of it all. It is disguise, innuendo, and cunning. It is mean, gorgeous and ambitious, and definitely the last word for the next few seconds.
Barbara Kruger
#49. I will find all your spots. Pleasure you until you beg me to possess you. When I finally do, I'll plunge into you hard. Deep.
Olivia Cunning
#50. 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;
Anonymous
#51. We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture.
Matthew Henry
#52. In the countries of Europe, one after another, the gentleman has been ousted by politicians and entrepreneurs, as materialism has given rewards to the sort of cunning incompatible with any kind of idealism.
Richard M. Weaver
#53. Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!
Lin Yutang
#54. We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage
always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
Sir Fulke Greville
#55. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Jane Austen
#56. Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.
Bill McLaren
#57. The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.
Arundhati Roy
#58. To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
Thomas More
#59. Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.
Rumi
#60. ...the Evil Spirit delights more to dwell in an artful body, than in one that has no cunning to work upon.
James Fenimore Cooper
#61. His bite will be cruel, but his tongue cunning,
His breath seductive, but his grip deadly.
The Dragon knows only hunger, never sated,
Only thirst, never quenched.
- Song of Venda
Mary E. Pearson
#62. Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#63. If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic visions of omnipotent international bankers plotting with unscrupulous government officials to impose cunning schemes on an ignorant and unsuspecting world.
David Rockefeller
#64. They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.
C.S. Lewis
#65. Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being.
Alberto Manguel
#68. A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.
Robert Jordan
#69. He was supposed to record in the studio this afternoon, and pow - he gets shot. This fuckin' album is cursed, I tell you.
Olivia Cunning
#70. You look happy, sweetie. Did you just eat a cherry pie?
Olivia Cunning
#71. It is not the homeless, mentally ill or extremely cunning people that we have to be afraid of. When someone loses everything that meant something to them is when people should get very afraid. A person that has nothing to lose is the scariest person on earth.
Shannon L. Alder
#72. The Titanic was in more senses than one a fool's paradise. There is nothing that man can build that nature cannot destroy, and far as he may advance in might and knowledge and cunning, her blind strength will always be more than his match.
Filson Young
#74. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.
Richard Adams
#75. It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.
Richard Steele
#76. Pantheists creep into the ministry, but they are generally cunning enough to concede the bredath of their minds beneath Christian phraseology.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#77. I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#78. 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
#79. Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.
Horace Walpole
#80. Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon
#81. It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
Strom Thurmond
#82. They were confident and cunning. They weren't mucking around looking for nuclear weapon secret sloppy seconds in America. They could care less about America. They were busy with the whole world domination thing.
Ira Levin
#84. Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
George Eliot
#85. The Attolian king obviously had a deep well of spite and I would've appreciated his low cunning more if I hadn't thought the Attolian was about to wring my neck.
Megan Whalen Turner
#86. 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
#87. What else makes you hot? You asking what makes me hot makes me hot.
Olivia Cunning
#88. A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#89. Ninety percent of my work is crap," he continued. "Another nine percent is mediocre, and then there are those rare gems that are actually useable.
Olivia Cunning
#90. It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
Francis Bacon
#91. Do not be held a cheat, even though it is impossible to
live today without being one. Let your greatest cunning lie in covering up what
looks like cunning.
Baltasar Gracian
#93. We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.
It fooled Rincewind.
Terry Pratchett
#94. This is mine," he growled into her ear.
"Say it."
"Say it Jessica. Say it.
Olivia Cunning
#95. Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!
Herman Melville
#96. He grinned. "It's more of a personal challenge. Do you have any interest in getting to know me at all? Personally, I mean."
"Can't I just Google you? Isn't your entire life somewhere online?"
He scowled. "Probably.
Olivia Cunning
#97. On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India ... However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.
Dervla Murphy
#98. You're Neptune, right?" she asked. "Lord of the sea who washed up on the beach during the storm? Do you perform miracles? Because I could use a couple of them tonight.
Olivia Cunning
#99. Fox, you are the most cunning of all animals, you shall be general and lead us.
Jacob Grimm
#100. Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.
Paul Desmond
