Quotes about Trickery

Milton Berle

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

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Central Intelligence Agency

It is often necessary to trick people into confessing.

William Sanderson

I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.

Jean de La Fontaine

It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Winston Churchill

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

Some people erroneously claim that Clement Atlee was the target of this insult. He was not according to Churchill himself.

Charles Henry Grosvenor

Figures won’t lie but liars will figure.

Laurence J. Peter

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to believe.

Nicolas Cage

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

Aditya Roy Kapur

As an actor, I feel one should use his look to trick people.

William Shakespeare

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

Justin Bieber

You know me... I can't resist a good prank.

Sebastian Brant

The world wants to be deceived.

Richard Adams

All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.

Robert Jordan

It was easier to trip a fool than to knock him down.

Robert Greene

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Samuel Butler

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

John Ruskin

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Paul Scholes

Let me tell you what it is like playing against Messi. You are up against a footballer who can take the ball either side of you, and you have no idea which side that might be from any hint about his body-shape.