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Like the juggler, deceiving by his tricks, one is deluded by egotism, falsehood and illusion.
Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.
Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another.
You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you.
As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.
They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good.
People talk about the plots and what happened, and they see your tricks a mile away.
Tricking?" Ravel said. "I wouldn't call it tricking, no. Manipulating? It could possibly be seen as manipulating.
Braggarts and rogues, dogs and scoundrels, drive them out, Harry Potter, see them off!
They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.
psycho monsters.
People with imagination
People who have power, who think negatively of others and seek to injure them, are practicing a kind of voodoo, a lower sorcery.
This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!
tricks are for kids,
What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked
Deceivers are the most hideous creatures in the world
I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.
To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.
Cracks Down On Subway Acrobats
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!
Amongst the financial Twitterati, the term 'muppets' has come to describe any client used and abused by some financial predator. I've adopted the term to describe portfolios that have been assembled for purposes other than serving the clients' best interests.
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 actor. The only difference is that actors take it for granted, whereas few conjurers are even aware that it exists.
Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.
Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.
The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.
So that makes us robbers of robbers," said Bug, "who pretend to be robbers working for a robber of other robbers.
Just us fancy wise-men trying to take on the world.
When you made plans, the saboteurs came out to play.
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
You'll find that trickery of the mind is just as potent as trickery of deed
They have assumed the names and gestures of their enemies, but have held on to their own, secret souls; and in this there is a resistance and an overcoming, a long outwaiting.
Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
I fool everybody!
Trick names are so ridiculous!
Great liars are also great magicians.
Playing tricks on me, using a pair of
The members of the circle ... [were] performing a peculiar caper based on Mrs. Shawcross's fancy of what a Saxon dance might have seemed like. ("Did Saxons dance?" Pamela asked. "You never think of them dancing.")
THEY WERE, WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE, AND WE LET'EM OFF THE HOOK!
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.
Among the lessons learned in my lifetime is the ease with which corruption can enter high places in the mask of friendship. Sometimes the recipient is not aware of the barbed hook under the gift; often, he who gives may not know but be the unwitting agent of a craftier mind.
Secrets and Malice
Cheap jokes and dirty minds." Patrick
Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!"
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before. It
A rogue is a roundabout fool.
An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.
In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"
Tactics are manipulative.
Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.
The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.
He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.
Thieves, Heretics, and Whores
Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception.
In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.
Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.
Certain persons are malicious solely through a necessity for talking. Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by their neighbors.
This is where the disillusioned gathered to look for new illusions
Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
The very cunning conceal their cunning; the indifferently shrewd boast of it.
Remember: The paranoid and wary are often the easiest to deceive. Win their trust in one area and you have a smoke screen that blinds their view in another, letting you creep up and level them with a devastating blow.
Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic.
The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.
There are certain people fated to be fools; they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
I'm not known for my intellectual range and tricks have been played on me.
The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.
Women are sneaky.
Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
It is the fool who thinks he cannot be fooled.
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries."
"She's not clever. I did them," yelled Frieda.
"You'll get five years."
"She did them."
From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
Mischief Managed.
They succeed, because they think they can.
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Those skilled at making the enemy move do so by creating a situation to which he must conform; they entice him with something he is certain to take, and with lures of ostensible profit they await him in strength.
The Midnight Gang
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 on the face of reality.
They are able who think they are able.-- Virgil
The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
I had one guy pretend to be me, go to a hotel room, and tell the people at the front desk that it was me, and then he went in and stole all of our luggage. There's always that eager beaver that wants to be a part of the team and comes off as a sticky fly.
I can't really describe a trick as much as I just feel it.
Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates, swindlers, and card sharks . . . their family history was both colorful and dark.
Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.
The demon got up. The demon said Fool. To think you can eat their food and not talk to them. To think you can take their money and not be afraid of them. To think you can depend on their company and not suffer from them.
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.
Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially.
Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
A people without the knowledge of ...
Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.
Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of custom: but of all of these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be miraculous.