Quotes About Trickery

If what Locke is doing were larking about, corpses could get jobs as acrobats.

Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had idle time in which to devote himself to thoughts of trickery.

The duke he employed the court docket residence, and we went round and glued up our payments. They read like this:

He seemed to resonate with a kind of confidence that life was still nothing but a joke - an endless succession of soccer goals, trickery, and a constant repertoire of meaningless chatter.

Može li netko ukrasti sre?u? Ili je i to još jedan unutarnji, pakleni ljudski trik?

Se puede robar la felicidad? ¿O es sólo otro infernal truco humano?

Perhaps it was Rudy who kept her sane, with the stupidity of his talk, his lemon-soaked hair, and his cockiness. He seemed to resonate with a kind of confidence that life was still nothing but a joke - an endless succession of soccer goals, trickery, and a constant repertoire of meaningless chatter.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

Love is evil, spell it backwards, I'll show ya.

As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

The relationship between cricket (that most English of sports) and spying (at which the British have always excelled) is deep-rooted and unique. Something about the game attracts the sort of mind also drawn to the secret worlds of intelligence and counter-intelligence – a complex test of brain and brawn, a game of honour interwoven with trickery, played with ruthless good manners and dependent on minute gradations of physics and psychology, with tea breaks.

The relationship between cricket (that most English of sports) and spying (at which the British have always excelled) is deep rooted and unique. Something about the game attracts the sort of mind also drawn to the secret worlds of intelligence and counterintelligence—a complex test of brain and brawn, a game of honor interwoven with trickery, played with ruthless good manners and dependent on minute gradations of physics and psychology, with tea breaks.

He was telling the story and the failures and the endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey. And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it -- it took a man to do that.

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

So all these extras, they're just bonus fuck-yous. Amusing booby traps. I love that I am a woman with booby traps.

You didn't have to stab yourself on stage. All that blood —" "It was ketchup." "It was gross

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.

Argonauts—and builds the largest ship ever constructed. He then figures out how to successfully navigate the legendary maze of crushing rocks known as the Symplegades, yoke fire-breathing, bronze-hoofed oxen, trick a mighty army guarding the Fleece into ravaging

That swindler, he tricked my ma and got away with it too. But he didn't even slow her down. It's good to cry a bit,'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is tough, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.

It was a true conversation. About whether our ancestors had more important lives than we do. And how they've managed to trick us, if they did not.

I love the fact that I can mess with someone's head.

They're running the con on themselves.

The God they preach about is pure invention, a trick. They're the first ones to not believe in Him!