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Quotes About Trickery

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~ Jim Butcher
Wisdom isn't everything. Survival requires an element of trickery, Chaos, subterfuge. All qualities I possess (if I may say so) in abundance.
~ Joanne Harris
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
I believe our children, unknowingly and with innocent trickery, teach us the deeper knowledge of how to be a true human being
~ Vimala McClure
You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery. Will you never stop perverting the right ways of the Lord? (Acts 13:10)
~ Unknown
Ésa es la trampa esencial, aplicar la muerte a los otros por una prórroga perpetua y un aplazamiento. Y eso está justificado por la necesidad de la existencia. Supone perpetuamente este engaño. "Sé que moriré, pero no les creo", dice Jacques Madaule.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
Illusion is the first of the pleasures
~ Voltaire
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
~ W. C. Fields
Never give a sucker an even break.
~ W.C. Fields
Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!
~ Groucho Marx
Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June.
~ Tom Waits
Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.
~ Evan Davis
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.
~ Angus Wilson
Why the Hatfords? Who else was as much fun to tease, trick, fool, annoy, harass, and just plain drive to distraction?
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
there was nothing but mutual mischief.
~ Piers Anthony
Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.
~ Plato
Everything that deceives also enchants.
~ Plato
Une femme, si peu qu'elle soit pourvue de malice, n'a pas besoin qu'on lui en revende; elle a le magasin chez elle, avec tous les assaisonnements de malignes pratiques.
~ Plautus
The enemy's ways are anything but original. He's been trapping people the same way since the beginning of time.
~ Priscilla Shirer
You only want to brawl. You want a fight. Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes," said Jess.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over...
~ Daniel Defoe
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives and breathes and thrives Has been, from the very beginning, guarded, saved By it's trickery for its swiftness or brute strength.
~ Unknown
believe that the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time.
~ Donald Miller
That's the first law of magic, Specs. Misdirection. Never forget it.
~ Donna Tartt