Cunning Quotes - Page 14

• To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.

  Thomas More

  God, God Love, This Life

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• History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

  T. S. Eliot

  Issues, History, Passages

  "Gerontion" l. 33 (1920)

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• Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Dust, Sparks

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.527, Delphi Classics

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• Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

  Josh Billings

  Children, May, Shrewdness

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• And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.

  Francesco Clemente

  Hate, Humorous, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

  Herman Melville

  Madness, Feline, Humans

  Herman Melville (2012). “Moby-Dick”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Play, People, Perfect

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• I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders.

  Rand Paul

  People, Mexican, Leader

  Source: time.com

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• The Fall of the House of Zeus is a riveting American saga of ambition, cunning, greed, corruption, high life and low life in the land of Faulkner and Grisham. These are good ol' boys gone bad with flair, private jets, and lots of cash to carry. Curtis Wilkie, a child of the South and a reporter's reporter, is the perfect match for this wild ride.

  Tom Brokaw

  Children, Fall, Ambition

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• A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

  George Crabbe

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  George Crabbe (1855). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe. With Life. Eight Engravings on Steel”, p.57

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• Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and long, magnetic eyes of the true cat-green. Invest him with all the cruel cunning of an entire Eastern race, accumulated in one giant intellect, with all the resources of science past and present, with all the resources, if you will, of a wealthy government--which, however, already has denied all knowledge of his existence. Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.

  Sax Rohmer

  Cat, Eye, Men

  Phillip J. Morledge, Sax Rohmer (2008). “Fu Manchu”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Dwarves, Dwarfs

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• 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

  Country, Europe, Entrepreneur

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition”, p.51, University of Chicago Press

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• Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Reality, Essentials, Littles

  Henry HOME (Lord Kames.) (1775). “Introduction to the art of thinking. Third edition. Enlarged with additional maxims and illustrations. [By Henry Home, Lord Kames.]”, p.13

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• Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dream, Crime Books, Punishment

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “Crime and Punishment”, p.261, Sai ePublications

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• A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Mind, Delight, Prey

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.80

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• How baffling it was that even the most cunning and clever people would frequently see only what they wanted to see, and would rarely look beyond the thinnest of facades. Or they would ignore reality, dismissing it as the facade. And then, when their whole world fell to pieces...they would tear their topknots or rend their clothes and bewail their karma, blaming gods or kami or luck or their lords or husbands or vassals-anything or anyone-but never themselves.

  James Clavell

  Karma, Clever, Husband

  James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.712, Dell

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• Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Victory, Principles, Machines

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book X, Chapter XVI, Section 12), circa 15 BC.

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• An Animated Cartoon Theology:
  1. People are animals.
  2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain.
  3. Life is antagonistic to the living.
  4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music.
  5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning.
  6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum.
  7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Pain, Smart, Animal

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• Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Fate, Men, Wealth

  "The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams". Book by Elbert Hubbard, 1923.

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• Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Littles, Conversation, Ifs

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• The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Dull, Policy

  Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.254

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• Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Rogues, Devilish, Laughable

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• Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Hands, Royal

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• Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Capacity

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.60, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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