Quotes About Trickery

Come of it what may, as Sinon said.

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.

We don't want obvious exploitation. We want smoke-and-mirrors exploitation.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.

Stupids dance on the same floor with the one who secretly befools them.

The devil catches most people in a golden net.

It's a lot of funnels and a lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not.

The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

Beatriz se llevó mi nariz, en un desliz.

We must be ready to employ trickery, deceit, law-breaking, withholding and concealing truth …We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

What devilish things we do when we try to be clever.

They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.

And catch a fox And put him in a box And never let him go.

Quando se quer apanhar um coelho, mete-se-lhe uma doninha na toca, e se o coelho lá estiver, foge. Foi tudo o que fiz.

A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization. A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Beauty is a genetic device: trickery that instigates competition.

Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now.

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.

For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies.

A few minutes later, she was once again riding her own horse. Deciding to take the lead, she nudged the mare into a trot, and as she passed Brodick and Ramsey, she called out, You used trickery. Yes, I did, he admitted. Are you angry with me? She laughed again. I don't get angry. I get even. Unbeknownst to her, she had just recited the Buchanan creed.