Cunning

Famous quotes containing the word cunning:

“There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“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)

“The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men?—if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)