Trick

Famous quotes containing the word trick:

    Suspicion all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes;
    Treason is but trusted like the fox,
    Who never so tame, so cherished and locked up,
    Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “It’s better to be fooled than to be suspicious”Mthat the confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)