Quotes About Trickery

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

A few years back, a con to trick

Go cons a piece of cake onto your mouth.

Sting the mamba with his own venom, pull down the lion with his own claws, deceive the clever chacma baboon with his own trickery.

Folly is the cloak of knavery.

Ah," said Jake. "Very tricky, Jenna. The answer, of course, is 'diner.' 'Fiend' is the word you would get if you took away one letter—'r' in this instance—but didn't rearrange the letters. 'Diner' fulfills both criteria specified in the question.

A lot of perception is a con job.

The hand doesn't need to be quicker than the eye if the eye is looking in the wrong place. Everything the magician does is about misleading the audience, everything: how he stands, where he looks, where he points and especially what he says. He will never be doing what he says he is doing, and if he tells you what he's about to do, he's lying.

You let the fairies fox you while the devil Does you.

The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.

It was loopholery at its very best.

Fools are easily fooled.

Crees que eres muy pillo pero has perdido el librillo. ¿Estará hecho picadillo? ¿O lo tendrá un trastolillo?

This speaker may turn out to be a "confidence man" with a trick up his sleeve, but we are attracted by such familiar flavors of speech, the way that bees are attracted to the blue juice of a melting popsicle.

So began one of the fiercest and strangest battles ever fought, a battle that involved all manner of business supplies, elegant clothing and accessories, and no shortage of trickery and taunts.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

A bad magician never gets the good props.

messing with you. I'm just trying to

Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck, You do their work, and they shall have good luck: Are not you he?' 'Thou speak'st aright; I am that merry wanderer of the night.

I've trained you to be as honest as any man who ever lived, but if virtue serves to guide our actions with our friends and allies, every sort of trick can be used against our enemies. That's why you were taught never to hunt a lion or a bear without some special advantage. Didn't that kind of lesson teach you cunning and deceit?

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon.