Quotes About Trickery

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

I dont know what could possibly distract three pigs enough so that you can get away." Sabrina thought for a moment then grinned. "I know exactly what to do.

what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went faster than anything man had the capacity to invent, so fast that for a while they fooled you into thinking they were slow, and was there any crueler trick than that?

The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime." "What's that, O'Brien?" replied I … "Why, Peter," rejoined he, "it's the stuff they feed fools on." —P. Simple, Marryat

The other aspect of NATO summits he found irritating was that they were group meetings. He was almost invariably enthusiastic about one-on-one world leader meetings—no matter the subject, no matter the leader—and agitated about collective gatherings. He worried about being ganged up on; he suspected that plots had been laid to trick him.

Langlauf – cross-country skiing – at that; which isn't even proper skiing, it's just a way of tricking people into what's really exercise).

The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it is to the actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.

The DEVIL we are fear is only one but appear in different forms.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

And so let us trot out the rascal!

They are bought by some rascal of a cook whom a Frenchman has taught how to skin a tomcat and then serve it up as hare.

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.

He's not upset because you didn't trust him, or that you tricked Sim. He's upset because you found out what asinine lengths he is willing to go to in order to impress a woman." He looked at me. "Is 'asinine' the right word?" I took a deep breath and let it out. "Pretty much," I admitted. "I chose it because it sounded like ass," Wil said.

Did you think that your feet had been bound By what gravity brings to the ground? Did you feel you were tricked By the future you picked? Well, come on down

and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?

Be that as it may, I was not a burden to you; but crafty as I am, I caught you by trickery.