Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old cunning quotes, cunning sayings, and cunning proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.William Hazlitt
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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
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Cunning is a short blanket, if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.Austin O'Malley
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The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.Benjamin Franklin
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Cunning is seeing a hundred yards ahead—wisdom, fifty miles in advance.Charles William Day
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One must be cunning and wicked in this world.Leo Tolstoy
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Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itself.Balthasar Gracian
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Learn well how to think right and then be your own shepherd, otherwise you shall be the unlucky sheep of all sorts of cunning shepherds!Mehmet Murat ildan
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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
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There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion.Virginia Alison
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Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy.Publilius Syrus
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Only the cunning needs excuses.Aristotle
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.William Blake
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Cunning is strength withheld. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.French Proverb
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Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Cunning is but the low mimic of wisdom.Plato
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Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise. Benjamin Franklin
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Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.Samuel Johnson
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Cunning is the mere ape of wisdom, and all hate its low tricks.John Thornton
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The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.Christian Nestell Bovee
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.Carl Sandburg
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It is important to realize that the cunning are not always vicious. The cunning often do good things, but for self-interested and utility-driven reasons.Jeffrey Cornwall
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Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.W.R Alger
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A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.Henry Ward Beecher
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Cunning is the intensest rendering of vulgarity, absolute and utter.Ruskin
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Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities. It floats between virtue and vice.La Bruyère