A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
There's always something fishy about the French.
The basic tactics of the Communist Party are deceit and trickery.
In soccer, you have to be sly.
Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.
Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.
With foxes we must play the fox.
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Now I will show myselfTo have more of the serpent than the dove;That is--more knave than fool.
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.
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.
Many live by their wits but few by their wit.
Oh Satan you're a wily one.
I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.
Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
