Be just, my lovely swain, and do not take Freedoms you'll not to me allow; Or give Amynta so much freedom back That she may rove as well as you. Let us then love upon the honest square, Since interest neither have designed. For the sly gamester, who ne'er plays me fair, Must trick for trick expect to find.

-Behan, Brendan Francis
  Poems upon Several Occasions,'To Lysander, on some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart than'twas worth'.

It's me Auntie Maggie's home-made remedy Guaranteed never to fail Now that's the stuff that will do the trick It's sold at ev'ry chemist for 'one and a kick'.

-Formby, George
  'Auntie Maggie's Remedy' (with Eddie Latta), song featured in the film Turned Out Nice Again.

TheTrick Is to Keep Breathing.

-Galloway,Janice
   Title of first novel.

   When in doubt, win the trick.

-Hoyle, Edmond
A Short Treatise on the Game of  Whist (first published1742, this edn edited by Charles  Jones,1790). This may be an addition by Jones.

A conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones† A resuscitated corpse might be a resuscitated corpse and might be the sign of something, butthere isstill the questionof what it is the symbol of.

-Jenkins, David Edward
  Of the Christian doctrine of Christ's physical resurrection. 'Poles  Apart', BBC radio broadcast, 4 Oct.

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'Sea Fever'.

Any daily journalist will tell you that one of the most important secrets of his trade is the trick of making it appear that there is news when there is no news.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  In the Tribune, 21  Apr.

That damnable woman's trick of heaping obligations on a man, of placing yourself so entirelyand helplesslyat his mercy that at last he dare not take a step without running to you for leave. I know a poor wretch whose one desire in life is to run away from his wife. She prevents him by threatening to throw herself in front of the engine of the train he leaves her in. That is what all women do. If we try to go where you do not want us to go there is no law to prevent us; but when we take the first step your breasts are under our foot as it descends: your bodies are under our wheels as we start. No woman shall ever enslave me in that way.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  JohnTanner to AnnWhitefield. Man and Superman, act1.

If he knew where he was going, it is not apparent from this distance. He fell down a great deal during this period, because of a trick he had of walking into himself.

-Thurber,James Grover
  Of his young self. TheThurber Carnival, preface.

All fiction is for me a kind of magic and trickeryöa confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

-Wilson, SirAngus FrankJohnstone
  In The Paris Review, no.17.