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Quotes About Trickery

Come of it what may, as Sinon said.
~ Phaedrus
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.
~ Major Owens
We don't want obvious exploitation. We want smoke-and-mirrors exploitation.
~ Jon Ronson
The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
~ Harry Houdini
We shall perish by guile just as we slew.
~ Aeschylus
Stupids dance on the same floor with the one who secretly befools them.
~ Probaerb
The devil catches most people in a golden net.
~ Proverb
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.
~ Ray Bradbury
The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
~ Ray Bradbury
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.
~ Wendy Corsi Staub
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.
~ Daniel Silva
Beatriz se llevó mi nariz, en un desliz.
~ James Dashner
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.
~ James Simpson
What devilish things we do when we try to be clever.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
They tried to be too clever---and that was their undoing.
~ Agatha Christie
And catch a fox And put him in a box And never let him go.
~ Agatha Christie
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.
~ Agatha Christie
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.
~ Aimé Césaire
We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
Beauty is a genetic device: trickery that instigates competition.
~ Randy Wayne White
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.
~ Raymond Smullyan
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.
~ Jack White
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.
~ Richard Adams
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.
~ Julie Garwood