Quotes About Swindling

#1. Each tim I think I am falling for Mister Right, and then what happens? BAM! The guy turns out to be a fraud, a swindling scoundrel, or a dishonest, disparaging jerk!

Kym Petrie

#2. It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. Cordone, delighted with himself for swindling the gullible Indians out of a fortune in pearls, stood at the railing of his ship smiling down at the pursuers. He was about to order his soldiers to fire upon the Indians when he was struck in the chest by an arrow. He dropped to the deck.

W.C. Jameson

#4. The State always stands for swindling, intrigue, and privilege, and cannot stand for anything else.

Ignazio Silone

#5. Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness

Mark Twain

#6. Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#7. Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

William Graham Sumner

#8. And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#9. Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Edmund Burke

#10. The nature of business is swindling.

August Bebel

#11. Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling ... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Thomas Jefferson

#13. The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.

Darby Stanchfield

#14. The simple act of smiling at people makes the world a better place. Unless it's the day you decide to walk around with your dong out.

Dana Gould

#15. I've learnt that there's a soul mate somewhere in this world. Till you don't find that person, the search goes on.

Preity Zinta

#16. Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Bo Burnham

#17. This next song is familiar - surprisingly gentle, like a kitten walking through high grass - and it seems so unlike Jake to create something this beautiful.

Matthew Quick

#18. I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy ...

Bryan Adams

#19. A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Lin Yutang