Quotes About Swindlers

#1. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

Soren Kierkegaard

#2. ETHNOLOGY, n. The science that treats of the various tribes of Man, as robbers, thieves, swindlers, dunces, lunatics, idiots and ethnologists.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates, swindlers, and card sharks . . . their family history was both colorful and dark.

Kelley Armstrong

#4. No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us...

Joseph Conrad

#5. All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Charles Dickens

#6. It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more; another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.

Soren Kierkegaard

#7. I daresay people have liked murderers," said Tuppence very reasonably. "It's like swindlers and confidence tricksmen who always look so honest and seem so honest. I daresay murderers all seem very nice and particularly softhearted. That sort of thing.

Agatha Christie

#8. Scenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.

Eugene O'Neill

#10. The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him.

Alexei Navalny

#11. Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most of all, it was a city of talkers. There were so many ideas in the air you could get an education simply by breathing deeply. (p. 206)

Rebecca Goldstein

#12. I love it. It's silly to say that it is a world of false and stupid people. Sure there are witches and swindlers, but you can meet there many creative, talented and generous persons too. Hollywood is a pleasant place, when you are hip to the game and you enjoy it for what it is really.

Matthew McConaughey

#13. Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers

Carlo Collodi

#14. If you ask me, we could do with a little less motivation. - The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. - Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans.

George Carlin

#15. Swindlers are notoriously gullible.

Mason Cooley

#16. The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

Jack Vance

#17. How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

Honore De Balzac

#18. The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Alan Moore

#19. We are very afraid of being powerless. But we have the power to look deeply at our fears, and then fear cannot control us.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#20. I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#21. Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.

Robert Byrd

#22. A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Aristophanes

#23. Luke was so perfect, he made me fearless. Because how could anything bad happen around a person like that?

Jessica Knoll

#24. His eyes, blind to external reality but highly perceptive in the realm of the inner life, rose from the book to the ceiling and returned to the book.

Machado De Assis

#25. The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

Thomas Jefferson

#26. Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

Kevin Rudd

#27. I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

Natalie Cole