Wine is a cunning wrestler. [ Plautus ]
Cunning borders upon ill craft. [ Proverb ]
Old men think themselves cunning. [ Proverb ]
A cunning woman is a knavish fool. [ Lord Lyttleton ]
Two cunning knaves need no broker. [ Proverb ]
Cunning craft is but the ape of wisdom. [ Proverb ]
Bribes throw dust into cunning men's eyes. [ Proverb ]
It is a cunning part to play the fool well. [ Proverb ]
Ornament is but the gilded shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian; beauty, in a word.
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest. [ William Shakespeare ]
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. [ William Shakespeare ]
The cloak sometimes falls off a cunning man. [ Italian Proverb ]
But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. [ William Shakespeare ]
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who covers faults, at last shame them derides. [ William Shakespeare ]
Here lies Dame Dorothy Peg,
Who never had issue except in her leg,
So great was her art, so deep was her cunning,
That while one leg stood, the other kept running. [ Epitaph ]
Wise men have but few confidants and cunning ones none. [ H. W. Shaw ]
The fox is cunning, but he is more cunning who takes him. [ Spanish Proverb ]
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
The two sources of all quack-talent are cunning and impudence. [ Carlyle ]
If a fox is cunning, a woman in love is a thousand times more so. [ Proverb ]
You are so cunning, you know not what weather it is, when it rains. [ Proverb ]
The cuckold was very cunning, but he was cunninger that cuckold him. [ Proverb ]
The cunning man uses deceit, but the more cunning man shuns deception. [ Adam Ferguson ]
The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others. [ Charron ]
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. [ Cicero ]
The dull flat falsehood serves for policy, and in the cunning, truth's itself a lie. [ Pope ]
If a man read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not. [ Bacon ]
This is the great fault in wine; it first trips up the feet, it is a cunning wrestler. [ Plautus ]
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. [ Alexander Pope ]
A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones. [ Chesterfield ]
Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little. [ La Bruyere ]
Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them ever learns his master's trade. [ Colton ]
Some men are counted wise from the cunning manner in which they hide their ignorance. In what little they do know such men play the pedant. [ A. Ricard ]
Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy. [ Lowell ]
The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves. [ Paxton Hood ]
Venerable to me is the hard hand, - crooked, coarse, - wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet. [ Carlyle ]
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. [ Carlyle ]
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]