Famous quotes containing the word cunning:
“In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Man’s 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 (1795–1881)