Quotes About Con Man

#1. The clip-joints are filled every night with marks who crave the tat," said one con man. "If you gave one of them an even break, it would spoil his evening.

David W. Maurer

#2. Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

Mark Twain

#3. The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.

Ken Kesey

#4. The first thing any charlatan needs is nomenclature. A special language. Trappings. That's the true genesis of psychobabble terms such as 'disclosure' and 'in denial.' Every good con man needs plausibility ...

Andrew Vachss

#5. He was a good con man, but not a great con man. He wasn't ruthless enough. He had all the tricks, all the techniques, the facility for it. That part if you'll excuse the expression, was in his blood. But he never really had the heart for it.

Jeffrey Ford

#6. In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away.

Frank Abagnale

#7. I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Francis Bacon

#8. Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two piercing eyes
the holy con-man with the shining mind, and the sorrowful poetic con-man with the dark mind that is Carlo Marx.

Jack Kerouac

#9. My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.

Danny Aiello

#10. Aaron looks like a con man who got hit with a shrink ray and you look like you're going to Catholic school.

Holly Black

#11. Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

J.D. Salinger

#12. Han Solo.
A legend of the Rebellion against the Empire. Trader, pirate, con man, and fighter extraordinaire. It was hard to believe he was real, Finn thought. Solo was history come to life.

Alan Dean Foster

#13. Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.

Flip Wilson

#14. I think the way for [Marco] Rubio to say to [Donald] Trump supporters, hey, essentially he's conned you. He's a con man. That's what they do. You pour gold people.My goodness, that's not the way to bring them in.

Bernie Sanders

#15. He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him. He

Jack Kerouac

#16. Oh, Alan Ryves," she said. "You're such a fantastic liar. You are the smoothest con man of them all.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#17. I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable.

Steve Martin

#18. But, alas, that was crap. She'd been had by a con man - simple as that. His modesty had been a way to cover up his true self. Call it instinct or women's intuition or going with your gut - whenever Wendy had done that, she had been wrong. "I

Harlan Coben

#19. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.

Jenna Miscavige Hill

#20. A good lawyer is part con man, part priest
promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court or let a client do it. But I've never been in this position. How far would I go for a woman who mattered? Is there anything I wouldn't do to win?

Paul Levine

#21. The conjuror or con man is a very good provider of information. He supplies lots of data, by inference or direct statement, but it's false data. Scientists aren't used to that scenario. An electron or a galaxy is not capricious, nor deceptive; but a human can be either or both.

James Randi

#22. Knowing the same tricks a con man knows is the best way to protect yourself from him. -Naru

Shiho Inada

#23. So far I'm not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Richelle Mead

#24. Give me an honest con man any day.

J.D. Salinger

#25. Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Ally Carter

#26. I get fans stopping me and telling me what a bad man I am. I got a lot of that at Comic-Con. I'd tell them, 'Sorry, mate.'

David Bradley

#27. What about a Princess Bride?"
"Where are we gonna find a six-fingered man on such short notice?

Ally Carter

#28. You could make any man forget his years. When I saw you arrive in your lovely dress, I was conquered. If you don't wish to dance anymore perhaps we could chat?
- David Walton

Barry Gray

#29. It was hard to tell if he was lying, or really believed his own bullshit. "We're good for each other. You give me what I need. I give you what you need. No one needs to know what that is because it's a secret between us. So we put on our suit. That's the investment: us.

Dan Skinner

#30. Her face was not young, but it was simple; it was not fresh, but it was mild. She had large eyes which were not bright, and a great deal of hair which was not 'dressed,' and long fine hands which were
possibly
not clean.

Henry James

#31. If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Ben Webster

#32. I thank God today she found the courage in her heart to love me enough so that someday I could tell you that even a black ex-con from Angola that stabbed a man could maybe someday do some good in the world if he gets a chance.

Ron Hall

#33. It's just a two-man con," said Shadow. "Like the bishop and the diamond necklace and the cop. Like the guy with the fiddle, and the guy who wants to buy the fiddle, and the poor sap in between them who pays for the fiddle. Two men, who appear to be on opposite sides, playing the same game.

Neil Gaiman

#34. Twitter Terrorist, billionaire heir, ex-con, computer geek, bad boy - none of those terms came close to describing Kyle Rhodes. He was, simply, a good person, and a confident, intelligent man to boot, and she found that combination absolutely irresistible.

Julie James

#35. A man who will misuse an apostrophe is capable of anything." Con Houlihan

John Doyle

#36. You cannot con an honest man.

Ally Carter

#37. You can either be a con or a man - you can't be both.

Peter Burke

#38. I can't believe we just did that." "What, killed a man?" "No. I can't believe we just fucked in your truck." Con laughed.

Stylo Fantome

#39. So dark the con of man.

Dan Brown

#40. Here's my philosophy. Adopt it, and you'll make it out alive. Every man for himself. You watch your own ass. Your con goes orange? You fall back to defensive position. No heroics. And no stupidity. Got it?

Eve Silver

#41. Are you still making that man sing? It must be love, dude

Con Riley

#42. I looked at the place with my heart beating as I had known it to do in the dentist's parlor.

Henry James

#43. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.

Sidney Sheldon