Have Been Cheated Quotes

#1. Let a gentleman be known to have been cheated of twenty pounds, and it costs him forty a-year for the remainder of his life.

Walter Savage Landor

#2. If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

Phyllis Battelle

#3. I have been cheated out of being treated like a human being. In my reflection I saw an empty vessel. They had cheated me and I was desperate to make the sharp pain in my head stop.

M.B. Dallocchio

#4. Before we aspire after theoretical perfection in the amelioration of our political state, it is necessary that we possess those advantages which we have been cheated of, and which the experience of modern times has proved that nations even under the present conditions are susceptible.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#5. Did I mention any name?" But dissembling was wasted; Eldir only glowered until Sethvir gave way with a shrug. "That's the part of his personality that makes us all feel like we've been kissing coiled vipers for a penny bet.

Janny Wurts

#6. A Gentleman is a man who will pay his gambling debts even when he knows he has been cheated.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.

Stephen Ambrose

#8. It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

Michael Phelps

#9. A debate actually is a policy issue but I will say this - gosh, if you guys ask one more mean question, I may have to leave the stage.

Ted Cruz

#10. The Aim ain't about being perfect..It's about not trying being perfect.

Abdel Halim Boudekhana

#11. Near the end of our lives, many of us struggle to move beyond the death of our dreams, beyond how we have been wounded and cheated, and beyond all the resentments that come with aging.

Ronald Rolheiser

#12. Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

Barack Obama

#13. But I've been in so much trouble. I threw an apple at Lea's face. I fought guards. I cheated on my trig exam."
Aiden looked at me, frowning. "You cheated on your math exam?"
"Uh, forget that. Anyway, wow, I'm just surprised.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. I've never cheated or been cheated upon. I've seen my parents together and secure. So I feel the same way. Infidelity stems from low self-esteem. You want to cheat when you don't feel good about yourself.

Preity Zinta

#15. I have done a number of things to keep this man. I have lied and cheated. I have been sexy and meek, fierce and vulnerable. I have been everything but myself.

Tarryn Fisher

#16. Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

Angela Merkel

#17. I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

Lance Armstrong

#18. Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way ... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated.

Gore Vidal

#19. Anytime "mushed" accurately describes your architecture, you likely have a problem.

Robert Nystrom

#20. Shut the eff up,' Aaron said. Only he said the REAL swear, the REAL word.

Carol Lynch Williams

#21. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

John Lydon

#22. My philosophy is worrying means you suffer twice.

J.K. Rowling

#23. So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn't become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.

Ransom Riggs

#24. All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!

Jonathan Goforth

#25. Which way will the sunflower turn surrounded by millions of suns?

Allen Ginsberg

#26. I'm trying to make records where people don't feel cheated. Nashville has been guilty of insulting the Country Music audience for years and years.

Steve Earle

#27. Everybody has been cheated on, everyone will be cheated on,

Cameron Diaz

#28. A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

George Herbert

#29. Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

Troy Polamalu

#30. Just know that I always have, and always will really love you, Lisa. Baby or no baby. Past or no past. I loved you then and I love you now.

A. Violet End

#31. Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?

Richard Russo

#32. Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.

George Orwell

#33. I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

Rogers Hornsby

#34. Some of these walls had been of my own making; my rebellion, my resistance; my arrogance, my need for control. Some had been built around me by the misfortunes of life; my loneliness; my orphaned heart; my fear of rejection. I had kept God at bay, and cheated myself of the warmth of His mercy.

Tessa Afshar

#35. I don't like people feeling like they've been cheated out of their money, and I too have been caught in the back of floor shows, only to inspect the backs of necks and the mudded sounds pushing though bodies.

Brian Chippendale

#36. We grew up hearing stories about how he has been cheated - out of money, out of reputation, out of a grander fate. We had lost everything, he'd wail, and that was despite the fact that we had each other.

Alison Singh Gee

#37. Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.

John Locke

#38. What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

Newt Gingrich

#39. Recalling vividly the love scene I had just witnessed. How much I had been cheated! How much of what should be every woman's was not mine and

V.C. Andrews

#40. The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

Kurt Vonnegut

#41. Assumption Theory: The only safe assumption in life is that the person who assures you that everything is all right is all wrong.

Robert Ringer

#42. Speak, then, o body, shout aloud, And break my only mind from chains To go where ploughing's ended.

Dylan Thomas

#43. I always believed that If I'm not carrying at least a slight poetically painful crack in my heart I've been cheated by nature.

Annie Ali