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cunning
«Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Action,
Behavior,
Generosity
| Keywords:
cunning, cunning man, generous
«I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty.»
«In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.»
«Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
accused, cunning, falsehoods, false witness, grant, malice, mingles, moment of truth, plead, pleading, pleads, promotes, surmise, surmises, tale, The Accused
«It is to see the faults of others, but difficult to see once own faults. One shows the faults of others like chaff winnowed in the wind, but one conceals one's own faults as a cunning gambler conceals his dice.»
«In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty»