Cunning

Famous quotes containing the word cunning:

“O animal excellence,
Take pterodactyl flight
Fire-winged into the air
And find your lair
With cunning sense
On some Arabian bight....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“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)