Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.

The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.

One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses."

Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.

For the task assigned them Men aren't smart enough or sly Any rogue can blind them With a clever lie.

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

And she’s very clever, Peeta. Well, she was. Until you outfoxed her

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

I'd rather be Jack be smart, than Jack be quick. Watch out for the man with the big fat licking stick.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

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

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

With foxes we must play the fox.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Machination is worth more than force.