Quotes About Trickery

Life is one big bloody trick played on the unsuspecting.

Will there be heinous fuckery, Pocket?

Because you can't argue with all of the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention." Brom opened his hand, and a pile of coins glinted in the light.

Si realmente quisiera tomarte el pelo te dejaría calvo.

So how do magistrates understand the word civilization? Where do we stand with it? Justice reduced to subterfuge and trickery! The law to machinations! Appalling!

It was only an illusion, but a perfect illusion.

It's not a game if you don't cheat, it's just two sods making a mess with fifty-two pieces of paper.

Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. "As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor.

When you fool a fool, you strike a blow for intelligence.

Any halfway clever devil would decorate the highway to Hell as beautiful as possible.

Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and so cruel that when we find one who is only weak, we are too happy.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

You can't argue with the fools in the world. It's better to let them have their way, then trick them when they're not paying attention.

There is another deity who is described as the calumniator of the gods and the contriver of all fraud and mischief. His name is Loki. He is handsome and well made, but of a very fickle mood and most evil disposition. He is of the giant race, but forced himself into the company of the gods, and seems to take pleasure in bringing them into difficulties, and in extricating them out of the danger by his cunning, wit, and skill.

The way to succeed is giving people a noble reason to do something despicable. And my patients... my clients, my characters are doing kind of scamming, deceptive things but they're doing them for noble reasons. Typically to be loved, to be accepted, to trick someone into embracing them and care for them.

The old woman had destroyed his family so thoroughly it couldn't have been accidental. It wasn't her niece's greed—the old woman had played a trick on them the whole time.

the con men never betray the game.

Talibus insidiis periurique arte Sinonis credita res, captique dolis lacrimisque coactis, quos neque Tydides, nec Larisaeus Achilles, non anni domuere decem, non mille carinae.

the conjurer had poured milk, molasses, foaming champagne into a young lady's new white purse; and lo, the purse was intact

Dude, it's Jocelyn, I (Jordan) say looking over my shoulder nervously [...] - This isn't Jocelyn, B.J says sighing. It's Jordan. Dude, try to play a better trick than that. You sound nothing like her. Plus your number came up on my caller ID. PS: maybe I'm just in a very good mood, but I keep laughing while reading this book, there are plenty of scenes that make me smile, and this is one of them.. it's just hilarious how silly and funny these characters are ;))

Look we didn't break in, we conned our way in.' - Ruby 'Oh that makes it so much better.' - Hitch

Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of cold currents and liquid convergences, jests and trickery - pressed against a hide like the burnished sea of midnight, thing look different to the rider.

The loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!

The devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist.