Quotes About Con Men

#1. Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.

Ben Stein

#2. We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

Fred Dibnah

#3. Actors are con men and con men are actors.

Edward Burns

#4. His name put in with the great traitors, con men, and self-aggrandizing egomaniacs of history.

James S.A. Corey

#5. The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

John Ray

#6. You name the TV psychic - they're con men.

Bruno Heller

#7. I love con-men characters in film.

Simon Baker

#8. Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

Martin Mayer

#9. Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Robert Farrar Capon

#10. Successful con men are treated with considerable respect in the South. A good slice of the settler population of that region were men who'd been given a choice between being shipped off to the New World in leg-irons and spending the rest of their lives in English prisons.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

Bill Paxton

#12. Ever notice how many expressions carry over from queers to con men? Like 'raise,' letting someone know you are in the same line?

William S. Burroughs

#13. [Con] men have long known ... that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe.

Thomas Sowell

#14. I thought, men who changed their names were likely to be con-men, criminals, undercover agents or magicians, whereas women who changed their names were probably just married.

Margaret Atwood

#15. Con men and tricksters run the world. Rascals rule. And do you know why?
because they are hungier than we are. because they know what they want. because they believe in life more than we do.

Paul Auster

#16. Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

Doris Lessing

#17. I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.

Mario Puzo

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Flip Wilson

#22. Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.

Victor J. Stenger

#23. 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

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

Peter Burke

#25. Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore', and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

Arturo Toscanini

#26. have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them.

Mario Puzo

#27. 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

#28. The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything.
(attrib: E. Tancarville)

Dan Garfat-Pratt

#29. 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

#30. Naked, tattooed men meandered around, lit torches, congregated in groups, spoke in hushed voices. It was like pictures I had seen on the internet of Comic Con, except no one was wearing a cape. And there were no females. So, yes, it was just like Comic Con.

Heather Rigney