Confidence Trick Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• 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
• Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin… — Peter Medawar
• Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick on himself, needs… — J. B. Priestley
• The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence… — Angela Carter
• People who believe in a divine creator, trying to live their lives in obedience to his supposed wishes and in expectation of a supposed eternal… — Barbara Smoker
• Now, if doctors were aware that medicine was not a science and that they were pulling what is undoubtedly the largest and most successful confidence… — Vernon Coleman
• 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
• It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone. — Zadie Smith

Who Wrote These Confidence Trick Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Confidence Trick Quotes as follows:

• 1 Confidence Trick Quote by Angus Wilson
• 1 Confidence Trick Quote by Peter Medawar
• 1 Confidence Trick Quote by J. B. Priestley
• 1 Confidence Trick Quote by Angela Carter
• 1 Confidence Trick Quote by Barbara Smoker
• 1 Confidence Trick Quote by Vernon Coleman
• 1 Confidence Trick Quote by Evan Davis
• 1 Confidence Trick Quote by Zadie Smith