Cunning Quotes - Page 8

• The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche.

  Eric Hoffer

  Devil, Subconscious, Cellars

  Eric Hoffer (1982). "Entre el diablo y el dragón: Los mejores ensayos y aforismos de Eric Hoffer", HarperCollins Publishers

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• There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.

  Victor Hugo

  Depression, Struggle, Blow

  Victor Hugo (1980). "Los miserables", Viking Pr

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• El idioma que he aprendido estos cuarenta años, mi inglés nativo, ahora debo abandonarlo; Y ahora el uso de mi lengua no es para mí más que una viola sin cuerdas o un arpa, O como un instrumento astuto encajonado O, estando abierto, puesto en sus manos Que no sabe tocar para afinar la armonía.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Years, Tunes

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Second Tetralogy In Plain and Simple English: Includes Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.38, BookCaps Study Guides

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• A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

  Danny Boyle

  Trying, Directors, Looks

  "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.

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• The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.

  Carl Jung

  Escritura, Destino, Hombres

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• A Myrddraal has less cunning than a woman, and a Trolloc fights with more honor. And a goat has more sense.

  Robert Jordan

  Fighting, Honor, Goats

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• The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

  Anthony Trollope

  Devil, Honest, Sober

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1941, e-artnow

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• The enterprise of Adolf Hitler, with all its clatter and fireworks, and all its cunning and dynamic energy, is the enterprise of an evil spirit, which is apparently allowed its freedom for a time in order to test our faith in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Order, Evil

  Karl Barth (1941). “This Christian cause: (A letter to Great Britain from Switzerland)”

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• They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Pirate, Gentleman, Trying

  "Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Eastern Question. A Study in Diplomacy and Party Politics". Book by Robert William Seton-Watson, 1935.

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• Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

  Jane Austen

  Bears, Affinity, Despicable

  Jane Austen (2014). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• Al explicar cualquier fenómeno desconcertante de Washington, elija siempre la estupidez frente a la conspiración, la incompetencia frente a la astucia. Cualquier otra cosa les da demasiado crédito.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Giving, Stupidity, Credit

  "Pelosi's Armenian gambit". jewishworldreview.com. October 19, 2007.

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• Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Clever, Convenience

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• El fracaso es un embaucador con un agudo sentido de la ironía y la astucia. Le encanta hacernos tropezar cuando el éxito está casi al alcance de la mano.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspiración, Deleite, Viaje

  Napoleon Hill Wyatt North (2014). "Piense y hágase rico", p.23, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC.

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• El optimismo siempre me ha parecido la coartada astuta de los egoístas, deseosos de encubrir su estado de autosatisfacción crónica. Son optimistas para evitar compadecerse de otros hombres y de su desgracia. ~~ Sin embargo, la compasión es una cuestión controvertida.

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Self, Order

  Georges Bernanos (1938). “A diary of my times”

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• Digan lo que digan algunos poetas, la Naturaleza no es tanto su propia y siempre dulce intérprete, como la mera proveedora de ese astuto alfabeto, mediante el cual, seleccionando y combinando a su antojo, cada hombre lee su peculiar lección según su peculiar mente y estado de ánimo.

  Herman Melville

  Dulce, Hombres, Mente

  Herman Melville (2016). "Pierre; o las ambigüedades", p.433, Herman Melville.

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• La disciplina del sufrimiento, del gran sufrimiento, ¿no sabéis que sólo esta disciplina ha creado hasta ahora todas las mejoras del hombre? Esa tensión del alma en la infelicidad que cultiva su fuerza, sus estremecimientos frente a la gran ruina, su inventiva y su valor para soportar, preservar, interpretar y explotar el sufrimiento, y todo lo que le ha sido concedido de profundidad, secreto, máscara, espíritu, astucia, grandeza, ¿no le fue concedido a través del sufrimiento, a través de la disciplina del gran sufrimiento?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Grandeza, Hombres, Disciplina

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.344, Modern Library

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• Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.

  Max Horkheimer

  Children, Reality, Men

  "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1982.

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• These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.

  George R. R. Martin

  Thinking, Knights, Hair

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1110, Bantam

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• No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Want, Our Society, Deceiving

  Carlos Fuentes (2012). “Happy Families”, p.76, A&C Black

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• An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

  H. G. Wells

  Real, Lying, Animal

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.92, 谷月社

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• But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Doubt, Sometimes, Loud

  Soren Kierkegaard, George Pattison (2010). “Spiritual Writings: A New Translation and Selection”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I’ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies both cunning and cruel. Knowing you possess the power to defeat most of them doesn’t threaten me, luv. It relieves me to my very core.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Knowing, Enemy, May

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• You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Dragons, Heartless

  "¡Guardias! Guardias!". Libro de Terry Pratchett, 1989.

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• Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

  Anne Frank

  Selfish, Tired, Thinking

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.54, Bantam

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• He tasted each one of them. The raw power and majesty of Wrath. The vast strength of Rhage. The burning, protective loyalty of Phury. The cold savagery of Zsadist. The sharp cunning of Vishous.

  J.R. Ward

  Loyalty, Wrath, Zsadist

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Revealed: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.444, Penguin

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