Quotes About Trickery

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard...

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.

We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and the victory is worth the trouble

Oh Satan you're a wily one.

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

The former Catholic nun (who oughtta know about guilt, after all) wouldn't hear of it. "Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.

Guilt is just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking you're making moral progress. - Vivian

trumpery. Knew

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

love is the biggest con of all

La magia deforma la realidad en interés de otro, con el fin de provocar una duda liberadora; la trampa, en cambio, deforma la realidad en detrimento de otro, con el objetivo de robarle su dinero.

We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

The dead think they can get away with anything because you'll feel sorry for them. If you play cards with the dead, make sure you deal and don't let them buy you drinks. They'll slip you a formaldehyde roofie and pry the gold fillings out of your teeth.

Paint ghosts over everything, the sadness of everything. We made ourselves cold. We made ourselves snow. We smuggled ourselves into ourselves. Haunted by each other's knowledge. To hide somewhere is not surrender, it is trickery. All day the snow falls down, all night the snow. I try to guess your trajectory and end up telling my own story. We left footprints in the slush of ourselves, getting out of there.

So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.

Exactly so! declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. I am a humbug. But

The Great and Terrible Humbug

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

It's the old shell game.

And on the eighth day, Satan laughed.

The hoax worked because of the West's absolute belief in its superiority to people of color; if a savvy Westerner could not explain such a trick, it must be real. The rope trick filled a cultural need—and revealed the gullibility that such delusions of superiority inevitably create.

Maybe I'll keep you." Abbot chuckled and prodded Artemis's back with his sword. "It'd be nice to have a pet human around. I could teach you tricks." "I have a trick for you," said Artemis, and he fired a single blast from the gun.