cunning

s. kurnaz, tilki gibi (Argo), açıkgöz, şeytan; marifetli; sevimli, şirin; kaşarlanmış
i. kurnazlık, şeytanlık, hinlik, beceri, marifet

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

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
Thomas Carlyle

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.
George Savile

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

We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning man.

There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as resolute as themselves, was upon their track.

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

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.
George W. Bush

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.
Francis Beaumont

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

It was like the intolerable, tingling sweetness of waterglasses when played on by a cunning hand.

I would gladly get them, said the cunning Monkey, but you are much more skillful at such things than I am.

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