I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity.
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The Hand of Ethelberta (1876), ch. 20.Thomas Hardy
His skill in acting a part, his cunning, his imagination, the ease with which he affected naive stupidity and then emerged into the most subtle reasoning disarmed the security agents who interrogated him.
Wilhelm Canaris
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Oscar Levant
It (i. e., his look) held the fatal mixture of stupidity and cunning that lurks at the bottom of all evil.
Brian Aldiss
Do not sit dumb in company; it will be ascribed either to pride, cunning, or stupidity: give your opinion modestly, but freely; hear that of others with candour; and ever endeavour to find out, and to communicate truth.
James Burgh
With skill she vibrates her eternal tongue,
Forever most divinely in the wrong.Edward Young
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