Cunning Quotes

(About the "Equus" paparazzi): They were outside the theatre every single night, but we came up with a cunning ruse. I would wear the same outfit every time - a different T-shirt underneath, but I`d wear the same jacket and zip it up so they couldn`t see what I was wearing underneath, and the same hat. So they could take pictures for six months, but it would look like the same day, so they (photos) became unpublishable. Which was hilarious, because there`s nothing better than seeing paparazzi getting really frustrated.

The fact is that America`s weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

the best, the most skillful, the most devious and the most cunning.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty-a sunken beauty.

The security has let us down badly here. The department is obviously very embarrassed by this. Cole is cunning and he is a great threat to the public.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

`Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,` Mr. (John Crowe) Ransom said` `Industrialism,` he declared, `is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.

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

Of Ann Pennington’s official film debut in Susie Snowflake, the New York Times stated on June 26, 1916:

Many of those who went to the Broadway yesterday for the first showing of Susie Snowflake will be inclined to endorse this particular nomination. Miss Pennington is obviously put forth as a diminutive star of the Marguerite Clark variety, a style enormously in vogue at the moment. She is little and cunning on Mr. Ziegfeld’s stage and little and cunning on the screen. She has youth, a Mary Pickford like harum-scarum way with her and, except in the trying close-ups when her expression is somewhat adenoidal, she is pretty.

Of course she dances. As her frisky little dance is her sole claim to fame at the moment, it could no more be omitted from her first scenario than the “pump and washing tubs” in Mr. Crummles’s theater. So as a child of the music halls adapted into a staid, old New England community, Susie Snowflake disrupts a church sociable by doing her Follies dance there in her terse Follies costume.