Cunning, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: “The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.”
Cunning Quotes
There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds; Tools of the wily Fetisheer, To fright the fools his cunning blinds.
Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise.
The animal world is about on a level of a gladiator’s show… whereby the strongest, the swiftest, and the cunningest live to fight another day.
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning, yelling works better.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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. (Marquis of Halifax)
