Cunning can also mean slip past or sneaky.
Cunning can refer to the following:
- A Japanese comedy group known as Cunning (owarai)
- The Cunning folk, a type of folk magic user
Famous quotes containing the word cunning:
“That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result, but a greater refinement already than is ever attained by man.... Nature is prepared to welcome into her scenery the finest work of human art, for she is herself an art so cunning that the artist never appears in his work.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)