cunning

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

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus

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

He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him.

He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone more cunning than himself upon his track.

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

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl Sandburg

He suddenly stopped and the old cunning look spread over his face, like a wind sweep on the surface of the water.

This vampire which is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men, he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages, he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and all the dead that he can come nigh to are for him at command; he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not; he can, within his range, direct the elements, the storm, the fog, the thunder; he can command all the meaner things, the rat, and the owl, and the bat, the moth, and the fox, and the wolf, he can grow and become small; and he can at times vanish and come unknown.

His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to find the man himself.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.
Pierre Charron

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.
John Tillotson

He is clever and cunning and resourceful, but he be not of man stature as to brain.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
Titus Maccius Plautus

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.
Jon Voight

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

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.
Giraldus Cambrensis

They must be cunning devils, he exclaimed at last.

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