#cunning

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. ↗

— Plautus

#fault #feet #first #great #trips

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#capable #cunning #doing #few #generous

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. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#america #anybody #confront #cunning #fact

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. ↗

— George Savile

#cunning #enough #fool #knave #man

Teddy risked a look backward and nodded as he handed Henry his hat. The two men shook hands and then walked past each other Teddy moving in the direction of Henry's room and Henry the hat pulled down over his face toward the Cutting carriage that was waiting by the curb. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#deceit #men

I changed my mind because of a scene between Howard Cunningham and Richie. The father-son situation was written so movingly, I fell in love with the project. ↗

— Tom Bosley

#between #changed #cunningham #fell #howard

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

— Pablo Casals

#cunning #heart #his #indeed #machines

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

— A. E. Housman

#american #conceal #cunning #diabolical #every

Oh Satan you're a wily one. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#intelligence #satan #intelligence

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

#action #cunning #dose #egoism #ends