And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Aldous Huxley

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.
Ovid

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Plato

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
Jon Voight

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Giorgos Seferis

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.
Mikhail Lermontov

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
Renee Vivien

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.
Peter York

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. Housman

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
Cynthia Ozick

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.
Strom Thurmond

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
Pablo Casals

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