Cunning

Famous quotes containing the word cunning:

“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)

“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)