#cunning

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

— Aldous Huxley

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A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#confident #cunning #directors #extra #feel

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#cunning #divorced #justice #knowledge #may

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

— Jean Genet

#cunning #deep #i #recognize #ruthless

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

— Peter York

#beauty #cunning #genius #high #high level

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

— Plato

#cunning #justice #knowledge #ought #rather

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

— Plato

#low #mimic #wisdom

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

— Plautus

#fault #feet #first #great #trips

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

Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they're as cunning as snakes. They can't lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place." He sighed. "They're not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#faerie #help-harm #hurt #jace-wayland #lie