Cunning

Famous quotes containing the word cunning:

“Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“I have no cunning in protestation—only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)