Famous quotes containing the word cunning:
“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)
“I have no cunning in protestation—only downright oaths, which I never use till urged, nor never break for urging.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)