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Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.
It’s lucky no one else knows what our most secret thoughts are. We’d all be seen for the cunning, self-aggrandizing fools we are.
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.
If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form.
Wealth: A cunning device of Fate whereby men are made captive, and burdened with responsibilites from which only Death can file their fetters.
The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.
I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint.
The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.
It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.
The devil comes and soon my subconscious and conscious might start to brawl. As this cunning demon takes me as its voodoo doll.
He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
A cunning fellow is man, inventive beyond all expectation, he reaches sometimes evil and sometimes good
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.
Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves.
Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?
The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.
Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
I want my soldiers - I mean artists - to be young and strong, with tireless energy performing impossible feats of cunning and bravura.
Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
Force Majeure is a jolt. You won't know what hit you. Director Ostlund shifts gears from humor to psychological thriller with cunning skill.
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.
To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will.
Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.
Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.
These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.
Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.
Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.
Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.
From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.
Do you come to a philosopher as to a cunning man, to learn something by magic or witchcraft, beyond what can be known by common prudence and discretion?
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
