Cunning

Famous quotes containing the word cunning:

“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)

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

“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)