Famous quotes containing the word cunning:
“though I loved them for their faults
As much as for their good,
My friends were enemies on stilts
With their heads in a cunning cloud.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.”
—Georges Bernanos (1888–1948)
“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 (1850–1919)