A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.
The basic tactics of the Communist Party are deceit and trickery.
There's always something fishy about the French.
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.
Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
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.
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.
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.
One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
Oh Satan you're a wily one.
I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream.
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
Lucifer is a master at gradual deception.
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
