Famous quotes containing the word cunning:
“though I loved them for their faults
As much as for their good,
My friends were enemies on stilts
With their heads in a cunning cloud.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“I have no cunning in protestation—only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)