Quotes About Trickery

It was the sort of smile that lies on sandbanks waiting for incautious swimmers.

Ahh! They're all just pins!

I don't like magic - but I have been known to make guys disappear.

Sadie felt as if she had been tricked into behaving amorally.

A woman. She liked this band called The Cure, and she thought it would be cool if she pierced my ear." Maya thinks about this. "Did you have a parrot?" "I didn't. I had a girlfriend." "Could the parrot talk?" "No, because there wasn't a parrot." She tries to trick him. "What was the parrot's name?" "There wasn't a parrot." "But if there was one, what would his name have been?

Lord Varys: Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick, a shadow on the wall. And a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.

Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

You swore to me. Does your word mean nothing?" Peter smiled wickedly, like someone who had just called checkmate. "I had my fingers crossed." "What? What the fuck are you talking about?" "That's the rules. You forgot to check.

where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain

Do not in this way, skilled though you be, godlike Achilles, try to trick me

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

On the cover of 'All the Stars' is a red grosgrain ribbon. It's Loos's ribbon. Ageless, fabulous Loos - she tricked the very people who would have cast her aside like an old shoe if they knew the truth.

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

Trump is a masterful con man, he's always trying to squeeze a little more juice out of his marks.

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

El fracaso es un embustero con un agudo sentido de la ironía y de la astucia. Se deleita en hacer tropezar cuando el éxito está casi al alcance. UNA

he conned his way past Saint Peter at the pearly gates, then the angels best lock down those streets of gold.

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"—Charles Baudelaire "The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he is the good guy"—Ken Ammi

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Yo no estoy acostumbrado a tomarme la vida a broma, querido marqués. La frivolidad no es lo mío, y menos aún en cuestión de travesuras; porque hay travesuras y bromas que deben tomarse muy, muy en serio…, o nunca saldrán bien. Una gran broma sólo llega a serlo cuando uno ha invertido en ella toda la seriedad del mundo.

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

Hiram!' Shelton ran to Hi's side. 'Aren't you you bleeding? I thought she shot you!' 'Red wine. When I saw it running everywhere, I played dead.' He winced as Shelton poked his belly. 'But I'm not leaping off any more shelves. That was pretty stupid.