“That demon will trick you faster than a politician with a liquor license.” — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It may well be that by trickery of priests men have sometimes taken a mortal's voice for a god's. But it will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Denied the outlet, through play, of his energies, he recoiled upon himself and developed his mental processes. He became cunning; he had… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Taren Ferry folk had a reputation for slyness and trickery. If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
... the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it ...… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“I won't be stuck in traffic 'til I see how rugged my path is And right now I'm loving how fast my… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
You're killing me here, Ash. Good, she said. She'd bend a few rules, but they both knew she wasn't going to push… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton Copy Share Image
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe.… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
“Stupid women were lured into it and assured they would become young and beautiful if they let themselves be pummeled and pounded… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
“Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing.… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“In my client who had confessed her “alien abduction” experience, an alter had been instructed that if she began to remember the… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“So much was so easy. Glamour was second nature. It was just making folk see what they wanted to see. Fooling folk… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“Grandma, what big teeth you have? The better to eat you with. That is why the girl must be very wary for… — Ruby Mohan Copy Share Image
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The magic of drama is infinitely more powerful than the magic of trickery. It is as available to the conjurer as it… — Milbourne Christopher Copy Share Image
The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
And many kinds of creatures must have died, Unable to plant out new sprouts of life. For whatever you see that lives… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the struggle for supremacy the various political parties outdo each other in trickery, deceit, cunning, and shady machinations, confident that the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
You know you can usually solve almost any problem, or you'll realize you can't, but usually you can solve almost any problem… — Dennis Muren Copy Share Image
“Quick as a whip, she did the only thing she could think of to distract him. Her mask clattered to the ground,… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
