Tricksters Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
— Albert Einstein
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers…
— Jack Vance
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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
— Janet Morris
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Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
— Napoleon Hill
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No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely…
— David Abram
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Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can…
— Manfred von Richthofen
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And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who…
— Alfred Molina
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The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort…
— Tom Robbins
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I am not times fool, nor a god hardened by the millennia; I am not the trickster in the black cape nor the sorrowful wanderer.…
— Anne Rice
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The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who…
— Christopher Paolini
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The future is a trickster rabbit, full of surprises. Only the past is predictable. -Bobby Goodspeed
— James Howe
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i am a trickster who doesn't know solitude
— Tite Kubo
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Trickster, love will be the end of you.
— Michael Buckley
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He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing,…
— A. S. Byatt
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Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.
— Jonathan Maberry
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Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who followeth the alluring advice of tricksters and schemers or who trusts it…
— The Richest Man In Babylon
Who Wrote These Tricksters Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Tricksters Quotes as follows: