“You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked.
"I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.”
Source: The Princess Bride
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American novelist, screenwriter and playwright 1931–2018Related quotes
“The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.”
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- Existence and expediency, p. 85 -->
Context: Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
“It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.”
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book I: The Book of Three (1964), Chapter 2
“A question is a trap, and an answer your foot in it.”
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Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Don't get trapped into thinking people are halves instead of wholes.”
Source: Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story
“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.”
Of her difficult childhood; Chrissy Iley, The Observer, Sunday 7 October 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/oct/07/1
“Trapped like a trap in a trap”
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker