Famous quotes containing the word cunning:
“But chief to heedless flies the window proves
A constant death; where gloomily retired,
The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce,
Mixture abhorred! Amid a mangled heap
Of carcases in eager watch he sits,
Oerlooking all his waving snares around.”
—James Thomson (17001748)
“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 (16131680)
“Mans 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 (17951881)
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