The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.
Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.
Cancer is such a ruthless adversary because it behaves as if it has its own fiendishly cunning agenda.
The Devil is a spiritual lunatic, but, like many lunatics, he is extremely plausible and cunning.
But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [. . . ] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.
Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
Writing about why you write is a funny business, like scratching what doesn't itch. Impulses are mysterious, and explaining them must be done with mirrors, like certain cunning slight-of-hand routines.
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
Cunning is strength withheld.
Cunning authors cut to be quoted.
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.
Cunning. . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.
Somewhere in [China's] soul lurks the cunning of an old dog, and it is a cunning that is strangely impressive. What a strange old soul! What a great old soul!
A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning.