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I rolled my eyes. He made me sound like a cunning criminal about to bring down the entire covenant. — Jenny Trout

Cyndara is extremely cunning. I wouldn't put anything past her or Lady Aron. — Diana S. Zimmerman

Thick cunning played on her face, had no fun there and went somewhere else. — Raymond Chandler

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but become transfigured into some still subtler form. — Herman Melville

[ ... ] she'd been raised to fear a person's differences rather than celebrate them. — Olivia Cunning

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning. — Charles De Gaulle

Can I book an appointment for make-up sex in two hours?

~Sed — Olivia Cunning

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done. — Sydney J. Harris

This beautiful, wonderful, sexy-as-sin woman is mine. You may look - and seethe with envy - but never touch. — Olivia Cunning

I am teaching you to live simply. To live with an idea is a very complicated living, it is cunning. To live simply, just like trees and birds ... — Rajneesh

I feel you, Kellen," she whispered. "Inside my body. Inside my soul. I feel you. — Olivia Cunning

Satan is cunning and man is weak, but God rules the heart of his faithful, and does what he will. — Edouard Rene De Laboulaye

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson

There is nothing so cunning as tangled deception. If you wish to seek out the truth, first uncover the lies that surround the illusion... — Virginia Alison

None of your business. Go get me a beer. — Olivia Cunning

There is a life you can love, but it takes courage, perseverance, and a little cunning to get there. It takes a warrior. — John Eldredge

A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime. — Edgar Degas

I love you. Even if no-one else in the world ever sees it, you need to see it. You need to believe it. — Olivia Cunning

That's my sucker. — Olivia Cunning

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. — William Hazlitt

Hungry people have the cunning of wild beasts. — Hunter S. Thompson

We have a cunning adversary, who watches to do mischief, and will promote errors, even by the words of scripture. — Matthew Henry

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

More are taken in by love than by cunning. — Luc De Clapiers De Vauvenargues

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain. — Thomas More

It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

There is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will. — Soren Kierkegaard

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves. — Edwin Paxton Hood

This is mine," he growled into her ear.
"Say it."
"Say it Jessica. Say it. — Olivia Cunning

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. — Jean De La Bruyere

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf. — Thomas Paine

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart? — Pablo Casals

Cunning authors cut to be quoted. — Willis Regier

Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed. — Richard Adams

If I was being cruel, you'd know it. Let go of my hair and trust me to satisfy you. — Olivia Cunning

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half. — Benjamin Franklin

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning. — Aldous Huxley

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. — T. S. Eliot

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater. — Donald Rumsfeld

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. — Plato

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

Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning. — Norm MacDonald

The cunning livery of hell. — William Shakespeare

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning. — Seneca The Younger

There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death. — Charles Dickens

You're crazy," she said with a laugh. And thank God for that.
"When it comes to you, I don't know how to be sane. — Olivia Cunning

I love the Mexican people; I respect the Mexican leaders - but the leaders are much sharper, smarter and more cunning than our [American] leaders. — Rand Paul

The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy — Diana Gabaldon

I like you, period."
"I like you, exclamation point. — Olivia Cunning

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good or ill. — S.M. Stirling

You look happy, sweetie. Did you just eat a cherry pie? — Olivia Cunning

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning. — Renee Vivien

Rabbits need dignity and, above all, the will to accept their fate. — Richard Adams

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it. — Michael Bassey Johnson

You fuckin' rock, baby," he murmured.
"You rock at fuckin', baby. — Olivia Cunning

Never judge another knight without first knowing the strength and cunning of the dragons he fights. — Richelle E. Goodrich

A cunning woman is a knavish fool. — George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

And I believe determination to be the greatest gift of all. Greater even than beauty, intelligence, or cunning. Determination matters most." She — Sally Christie

From the dog's point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog. — Mabel Robinson

If I want to act relaxed, it's going to take all my cunning, skill and concentration. — David Mitchell

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Be cutthroat and cunning. Think like a netherling queen. — A.G. Howard

We eat on that table, you know.

~Trey — Olivia Cunning

Silence, exile, cunning and so on ... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work. — Don DeLillo

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want. — F. Huegel

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

God, you made me come hard.
No need to call me God, he teased. — Olivia Cunning

He wondered if he, too, was tempted by cunning. Maybe he was drawn as well to the biggest gamble. — Marie Rutkoski

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves. — Eugene O'Neill

Lozen is my right hand ... strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people. — Victorio

Wine is a cunning wrestler. — Plautus

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba

Those cunning bastards at Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Dior knew exactly what was required to trap a poor man. She smelled wonderful. — Jo Nesbo

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon

The whiskey had its own mind. Or spirit, he said. A cunning spirit. Sometimes it fooled him. Sometimes it set him free. — Louise Erdrich

You'd be a part of my life. My world. You'd get hard and cunning to survive, or you'd stay gentle and die. — C.D. Reiss

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

Trey pulled the sucker out of his mouth.

"Um, Myrna," he said. "You seem to be naked."

~Trey — Olivia Cunning

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. — Lord Chesterfield

Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She — Ken Follett

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing. — Alexander Pope

To make women learned and foxes tame has the same effect - to make them more cunning. — King James I

Thayli, you are very brave. Are you cunning, too? — Richard Adams

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all. — Gretchen Rubin

This knot of nature is so well tied that nobody was ever cunning enough to find the two ends. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth. — Benjamin Franklin

Sometimes a beautiful woman just needs a hard, slow fuck against a wall with a perfect stranger. I understand. — Olivia Cunning

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word. — Martin Luther

You hired a female guitarist?"
"Uh, yeah. She fuckin' rocked our faces off. — Olivia Cunning

Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers — Pat Conroy

A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning. — Anna Brownell Jameson

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.
— Vernon Howard

You're like Mr. Romance and Mr. Porn Star wrapped in one. — Olivia Cunning

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning. — Mikhail Lermontov

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. — Peter York

All great enterprises are about logistics. Not genius or inspiration or flights of imagination, skill or cunning, but logistics. — Tom McCarthy