Tricks Quotes

“La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."

("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")”
― Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen

“The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ("The grass was greener over there")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You’re not as sexy as I think you are.” She squinted. Wait. That hadn’t come out right.”
― Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart

“I’m busy, you’re busy, everybody’s busy. I’ve got a lot I want to say to you, though.” “All right,” Pia told her. “Hit me with it.” “First, I’m so sorry about what my uncle Urien did to you guys. I hate him, he killed my family, and we’re going to cut off his head, and then I have to be Queen, but before that happens let’s do lunch, okay?”
― Thea Harrison, Dragon Bound

“Voting is not a right. It is a method used to determine which politician was most able to brainwash you.”
― Dennis E. Adonis

“He had come for her. He had promised everything was going to be okay, and he had come for her, and he had looked so crazy-sexy. No, monstrous. No, sexy. Oh damn.”
― Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart

“mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves."
"Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?"
Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice."
He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out.
Then they both let go. laughing.
"Naw," Plight said, we just play board games."
..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!”
― Derek Landy, Kingdom of the Wicked

“Oh, I don’t want to pat you on the head, faerie,” he said low in his throat in a deep purring growl that vibrated through her body. He bent closer until his lips brushed hers. “I want to fuck your mouth.”
― Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart

“I said I want to fuck your mouth, first with my tongue"-he licked her lower lip-"and then with my finger, and then with my cock. Maybe that will shut you up."

~Tiago”
― Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart

“I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Tricks ripped and you tripped, tricked yourself by falling slowly.
I’m the winner in this game,
unable to stoop to your level of shame.
Unwilling to reply to your words of ache.”
― Jamie Weise

“An experienced loner does not fall for the same trick twice.”
― Wataru Watari, やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。2

“A look came into his dark eyes, a new expression she could'nt decipher. He stroked her lips with his thumb and stared at her like he had never seen her before.”
― Thea Harrison, Storm's Heart

“Trying to write trick questions backfires if the person taking the test knows who to look for tricks.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Grandest Game

“It is said that love does not last, that it is just a momentary spell cast upon your soul by some higher power, or a small trick of the mind. If this were all true, there would be no story to tell.”
― Natalie Valdes, NIRVANA

“How can I help being a humbug," he said, "when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wizard Of Oz

“Oh, tell me the rest. I like tricks and snares. Even ones I was nearly caught in.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“Using trickery on the trickster to mend their ways, is not trickery, but the rightful use of intelligence.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

“You can use dirty legal tricks to deny my government disability payments and I can use research, discovery and the internet to shut your toxic enterprise down.”
― Steven Magee

“My plane of mind created tricks that only metal brains can read and laugh.”
― Florin-Marian Hera, BEFORE INC.WE935.I57.N211

“Below, Grandma Elvina's recipe for a comfortable bed:
Order a medium thickness egg foam pad from Sears, double up a thick wool Army blanket, and pull the bottom sheet taut across the whole thing. Then sprinkle a little loose Avon powder (any flowerly one will do) and rub it into the sheet.”
― EllynAnne Geisel, The Apron Book: Making, Wearing, and Sharing a Bit of Cloth and Comfort

“Keep doing tricks, and idiocy affects and effects nothing on others except self-failure.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“It is in times like these that we face the most cunning of tricksters. We might even find a trickster in the seat of power.”
― Joy Harjo, Catching the Light

“THE KAA

I imagined his memory was playing tricks on him, the way that dreams are usually a product of the mental state in which we are when we are having them.”
― Iqra Iqbal, AI Creative Writing Anthology: 20 Authors Share How to Use Computer Tools

“Positivity is contagious”
― Dan Chamandy, What Are You Waiting For: Kick Procrastination in the Rear Using the "Yes" Principle. Grab the Lead. Take Back Control.

“It's good enough. It has to be, doesn't it? You see, lad, Aes Sedai are tricksome. They don't lie, not right out, but the truth an Aes Sedai tells you is not always the truth you think it is. You take care around her."
"I've heard the stories," Rand retorted. "I'm not a child.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“Your guide to the nightmare land
Of tricks and lies and nightmare plans;
Your guide to the nightmare land
Of all those nightmare dreams of man.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“Kaida's attorney suggested a quit claim deed as the best vehicle for transferring Gail’s home into Kaida's name with a limiting clause for a life estate for Gail. The single page was drafted on his computer.
When Gail asked Kaida why her beneficiary deed and her will were not sufficient, Kaida told her the new “trust” was more complete. It ensured that Grant and Paige would finally inherit her property at the end of Kaida’s life. It would also substantially help her build Kaida’s credit back from the bankruptcy to have her name on the deed.
Gail certainly loved Kaida and her grandchildren. Gail trusted Kaida’s promise to care for her in her old age, and she believed their funds had become hopelessly co-mingled, so that sitting in the attorney’s office that day, she finally agreed to sign the trust document with a “joint tenancy life estate” on her property. It felt like a business transaction. It was only right to incentivize Kaida for her promise to care for her in her old age.”
― Lynn Byk, The Fearless Moral Inventory of Elsie Finch

“They try to trick me with the things I taught them, not realising that they only know what I permit”
― Mantšo Tšiu

“We employ a dirty trick to combat dirt.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov