George Crabbe Quotes

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

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

With foxes we must play the fox.

The ingenuity of these people is singular in their secret modes of mischief.

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

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.

Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

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.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Or whipping its rough surface for a trout.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

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."

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

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

A rogue is a roundabout fool.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.