Trickery Quotes

42 quotes by 42 authors

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that. — Drew Barrymore
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… — Criss Angel
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced… — Jean Meslier
All war is murder, robbery, trickery, and no nation ever escaped losses of men, prosperity and virility. War knows no victor. — David Starr Jordan
...History shows that ... (people) can be deflected from their natural tendencies by artful propaganda, bogus crises, or other political trickery. — Robert Higgs
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
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
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… — Hake Talbot
Whatever one wishes to say, there is one noun only by which to express it, one verb only to give it life, one adjective only… — Guy de Maupassant
I do not pray. . . . I do not expect God to single me out and grant me advantages over my fellow men. .… — Zora Neale Hurston
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts… — Francoise Sagan
Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors have… — Christine de Pizan
Quite honestly, ... there`s never been stunt driving before or after as spectacular or elaborate. That`s all real, no (computer trickery). — John Landis
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own… — Kate Chopin
Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings...Exploitation and manipulation produce boredom and… — Erich Fromm
Riding upon the back of a waterhorse - what mortal had ever stayed in such a seat for so long? On a horse made of… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
No computer, no gadget, no trickery. I am an animal, it is a plant. I will beat the weed! — Matthew McConaughey
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole… — Victoria Glendinning
Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below… — Peter J. Carroll
It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell." — Ari Marmell

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