Best Trickster Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.”

Waiting Pleasure Lies Patience Clever Nervous Bored Yearning Impatient Sly Trickster

Book:The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

Source: The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“Using trickery on the trickster to mend their ways, is not trickery, but the rightful use of intelligence.”

Honesty Brainy Quotes Tricks Pearls Of Wisdom Truthfulness Sage Sayings Trickery Trickster Tricking

Book:Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction

“It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flying out of the corrosive fire. The coward is a trickster serpent, which vanishes in your time of despair, and appears in time of equanimity.”

“A persistent liar cannot prosper without a powerful memory.”

Lies Cheating Liars Falsehood Deceiving Lie Liar False Con Artist Trickster

Book:Wealth of Words

Source: Wealth of Words

“For trickster saves the world. The paradoxical trickster-creating order through chaos, the underdog that overcomes, the liminal role, and all the dangers associated with it, personified Israel. So in Exile when the canon is beginning to form, the Israelites tell of their ancestors as tricksters. For the trickster represents not only the threat of a marginalized existence, or the danger of the liminal status, but also the salvific role in which Israel still paradoxically believed it functioned.”

Bible Deception Trickster

Book:The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch

Source: The Trickster Revisited: Deception as a Motif in the Pentateuch

“If you press a trickster to show themselves, you will find a reliable phenomenon quiet at once. The trickster will pop out from behind the rock and laugh at your disgrace once the crowd has dispersed.”

Laughter Phenomenon Laugh Disgrace Trick Trickster

Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“I am looking for the one I can’t fool.”

“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?”

Mind Sound Chance Creation Thoughts Shadow Train Strangers Trickster Patricia Highsmith Strangers On A Train Nightp

Book:Strangers on a Train

Source: Strangers on a Train

“Dead people don't haunt you. Your own neglects haunt you. //Why People Feel Miserable”

Love Care Gratitude Parents Miserable Cheat Unfaithful Deceiver Deceive Trickster

Author:Vineet Raj Kapoor

“He does not seem like someone who has been carrying poisoned spies through the snow, someone who has braved an enemy camp. Someone who pushed his magical cloak into my hands. He seems like the person who shoved me into the water and laughed when it closed over my head. Who tricked me.”

Holly Black Heroic Bully The Folk Of The Air Jude Duarte Cardan Greenbriar Jude Cardan The Queen Of Nothing Trickster

Book:The Queen of Nothing

Source: The Queen of Nothing

“I embroider these tales with charm and magic because that’s how I experienced them. The trickster is a threshold being, between two realms. One foot planted here, the other beyond. The letter and the spirit.”

Spirit Magic Experience Memory Charm Letter Embroidery Realm Trickster

Book:Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“Obviously the raven with the unquenchable itch was at it again, playing tricks on the world and its creatures. Once by air, he thought, and now by water.”

Death Gone Died Death And Dying Elusive Ravens Disappearance Raven Trickster Vanished Pass Away Trickster Gods Inuit Lmythology Legend Inuits Myth Raven Native Canadian Folklore

Book:Solomon Gursky Was Here

Source: Solomon Gursky Was Here

“A company of wolves, is better than a company of wolves in sheep's clothing.”

Fake Cheat Phony Counterfeit Deceiver Pretender Bastard Trickster Impostor Crook Quack Sham Forger Swindler Racketeer

Author:Anthony Liccione

“I've done my part, played my hand, even thrown in my cards when I had to. I've bet what I didn't have and bluffed until I had it. Link once said: Ridley Duchannes is always playing a game. I never told him, but he was right.”

Gambling Game Bad Girl Trickster Ridley Duchannes

Author:Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

“At seventeen, he has grown tall, towering over me, lithe and finely muscled. His hair catches the moonlight, warm gold threaded with platinum, bangs parting around small goat horns, eyes of shocking amber, and a constellation of freckles across his nose. He has a trickster's mouth and the swagger of someone used to people doing what he wanted.”

Appearance Holly Black Faerie The Stolen Heir Swagger Oak Oak Greenbriar Freckles High Fae Trickster

Book:The Stolen Heir

Source: The Stolen Heir

“By being so bizarre when less was required, he peculiarly becomes more credible. Someone faking it would not go to these lengths unless they were profoundly committed to the bit, making it more likely this was a genuine personality, an actual trickster.”

Bizarre Credible Trickster

Book:The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

Source: The Curious Case of the Talking Mongoose

“I am preprogrammed, acting on impulse, dumping a vast memory into a whirling pool and somehow bringing order to it. Building a complex web. I am the spider. This is my venomous bite. I will make them see their folly.”

Science Fiction Ella Trickster Nexis

Book:Nexis

Source: Nexis