Quotes on Cunning

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Author: Francis Beaumont

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Author: Pierre Charron

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.

Author: Ovid

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Author: Cynthia Ozick

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

Author: Titus Plautus

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Author: Carl Sandburg

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Author: George Savile

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

Author: Jon Voight