In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.
Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?
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.
The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.