Quotes About Trickery

And that also makes for the horror of life all around. How does it stun you—with thunder and lightning? No, with sidelong glances and whispers of calumny. It's all trickery and ambiguity. A single thread is like a spiderweb, pull and it's gone, but try to free yourself and you get even more entangled.

I'm a fool, that I should simply trick the tourists like everyone else. after all, most of them will never come back. and what are tourists for but for tricking?

Ah." Puck's emerald eyes sparkled with glee. And so they come crawling back for Puck's help after all. Tsk tsk." He shook his head and took another bite of the apple. How easy it is to forget grudges when someone has something you need.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

A dismal demon who was mostly mouth, he was ready at a moment's notice to offer misinformation on any subject. And, while he often tumbled heavily, it was never he who was hurt, but, rather, the unfortunate person on whom he fell.

It worked better than she had hoped. Even husband Gerald gasped in surprise, and seemed to be trying to push the table back down—into the floor. George too seemed taken in, bless him.

THE BEST WAY TO FOOL SOMEONE, in Vin's estimation, was to give them what they wanted. Or, at the very least, what they expected. As long as they assumed that they were one step ahead, they wouldn't look back to see if there were any steps that they'd completely missed.

Kelsier smiled. Gods, it appeared, could still fall for a classic misdirection con.

It would be like finding out that you'd drawn lots for dessert at the Factory and been only one number off, only it didn't matter because Pete already snuck in to steal the dessert, so nobody was going to get any anyway - not even Pete, because it turns out there had never been any dessert to begin with.

The human mind was very clever at tricking itself, at keeping the despair of inevitability at bay.

The tree slowly fell over, playing dead.

In fact, tell him I've diddled him, and perhaps somebody else.

I've always eaten egg whites because when I was little, I didn't like the color yellow, so my mom would trick me into eating eggs by taking out the yolk.

The whole trick is to make it feel like you're spying on real people's lives as they get through the day. When I'm writing, I have to trick myself as a writer. If I consciously say, 'I'm writing,' I feel all this pressure and somehow it doesn't feel as real as when it doesn't seem to count as much.

When arguing with a woman who is strong, intelligent, and forthright, consider using trickery, artifice, and deceit.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

Then he hung up, the scoundrel!

confidence artist to the very end.

I say, sah! Sorry to trouble you to get off your big fat bottom and help a poor gel out! I would not have helped if you hadn't have needed it. You were doing well on your own until the vermin started trying to use trickery. Dottie bounced on her footpaws, her large ears stand up straight. I know, sah! The bally old blighters didn't know wot hit 'em! Lord Brocktree hid a smile.

Ciba: I thought you were supposed to be some big brave war hero. What about that goddamn gold star you polish every night? Natalya: You know what this shiny piece of tin is, you fucking space cadet? It's the way stupid boys trick other stupid boys into dying for bullshit causes ... and I'm done acting like one of them.

Third Time tricked, marks the fool.

Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about, said the voice of Maurice. They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.

More than half the skill of writing lies in tricking the book out of your own head.

It's all trickery. They keep you down and when they piss off some other country, you have to fight for them! It's only your country when they want you to get killed!