Literature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: "You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.". (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. (Quote by - Fran ois Duc de La Rochefoucauld)
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men. (Quote by - Strom Thurmond)
He's a very cunning character. (Quote by - Ken Conboy)
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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. (Quote by - Bible)
Tall, bald, and pouch-eyed, with a velvet voice, a droll wit and the face of a cunning bloodhound a performer who made audiences twitter and roar with subtle ease. (Quote by - Robert D. McFadden)
But who is able to build him an house, seeing the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain him? who am I then, that I should build him an house, save only to burn sacrifice before him? / Send me now therefore a man cunning to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and that can skill to grave with the cunning men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father did provide. (Quote by - Bible)
The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting. (Quote by - Arundhati Roy)