Cunning

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)

“Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

“O the cunning wiles that creep
In thy little heart asleep!
When thy little heart doth wake,
Then the dreadful night shall break.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)