Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes but I like them. It looks like cunning but you try to get extra things from them all the time by stealth by making them feel confident so they trust you and you can push a bit.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing more a cunning thing but very few a generous thing.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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.

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.

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.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

I recognize in thieves traitors and murderers in the ruthless and the cunning a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

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!

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects and discovering other people's weaknesses.

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.