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cunning

«From a dog's point of view his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.»
«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.»
«And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah; / And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship; / And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, / And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.»
«How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.»
«Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise»
«`I'll be judge, I'll be jury,' said cunning old Fury: / `I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.'»
«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.»
Author: Ovid (Author, Poet) | Keywords: cunning, knavery, slippery
«Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | Keywords: cunning, low, lowing, lows, mimic, mimics
«Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning»
«If I thought he'd been valiant and so cunning in fence, I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him.»

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