A Quote by Willis Regier
Cunning authors cut to be quoted.
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I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted.
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors.
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.
If you were a computer and read all the AI articles and extracted out the names that are quoted, I guarantee you that women rarely show up. For every woman who has been quoted about AI technology, there are a hundred more times men were quoted.
Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.
The Bible has lost every major battle it has ever fought. The Bible was quoted to defend slavery and the bible lost. The Bible was quoted to keep women silent, and the Bible lost. And the Bible is being quoted to deny homosexuals their equal rights, and the Bible will lose.
All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.
When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it.
Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done.
Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.
Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide 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.
