TRICKERY

Related Subjects: Concealment, Cunning, Deceit, Flattery, Knavery, Lies, Subtlety

1. It takes about a hundred years to tire this country of trickery—and we're fifty years overdue right now.—MAXWELL ANDERSON, Both Your Houses
   

2. She had a thousand jadish tricks,
   Worse than a mule that flings and kicks.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
   

3. In trickery, evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretenses of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.—DICKENS, Bleak House
   

4. Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
   

5. A trick to catch the old one.—THOMAS MIDDLETON, Title of Play
   

6. One trick needs a great many more to make it good.—Proverb
   

7. I know a trick worth two of that.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

8. He coasts
   And hedges his own way.
   But in this point
   All his tricks founder.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VIII
   

9. These are unsightly tricks.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
   

10. I have within my mind
    A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,
    Which I will practise.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

11. If I be served such another trick, I'll have my brains ta'en out and buttered, and give them to a dog for a new-year's gift.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merry Wives of Windsor
    

12. He hath as many tricks as a dancing bear.—SWIFT, Polite Conversation