Swindle Quotes

#1. Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

Benito Perez Galdos

#2. It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.

Mark Twain

#3. Las Vegas is like huge fake breasts. Nothing is real, just plastic. It is all provided with a clean veneer over the grime of its purpose, to swindle. And I don't gamble

Komrade Komura

#4. In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

Daniel Guerin

#5. Is there any one among you who believes he can be spared the way? Can he swindle his way past the pain of Christ? I say: Such a one deceives himself to his own detriment. He beds down on thorns and fire. No one can be spared the way of Christ, since this way leads to what is to come.

C. G. Jung

#6. Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

Imelda Marcos

#7. What a swarm of the pseudo-"delivered" stares down at us from the pinnacle of their salvation! Their conscience is clear - do they not claim to locate themselves above their actions? An intolerable swindle.

Emil Cioran

#8. It's common knowledge that the "church" is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

David Eddings

#9. He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#10. Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

Bruce Catton

#11. If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.

Standing Bear

#12. Like his father, like Jules Renard, he had been carried along the slow, steady swindle of history and experience.

Mavis Gallant

#13. There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.

Joseph Pulitzer

#14. I find economics increasingly satisfactory, and I think I am rather good at it. I want to manage a railroad or organise a Trust or at least swindle the investing public

John Maynard Keynes

#15. In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

Karl Marx

#16. When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

Tawfiq Al-Hakim

#17. People swindle themselves out of Salvation with great regularity.

Anne Rice

#18. 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

#19. Christmas was over. It had passed, as usual, in a fever of generosities, and left an aftertaste of swindle in its wake. "Anticippointment" Pamela said ... and there was in that invented word all the regret and resignation that forty-seven years of Christmases had built up in her.

David Leavitt

#20. This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Kurt Schwitters

#21. With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to an honest man he has been unable to swindle.

Honore De Balzac

#22. Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#23. In human language, selling a smoking pot for three gold pieces is called a 'swindle,'" the man said, narrowly escaping a kick in the shins.
"In Elfish language it's called 'genius,'" the little elf replied cheerfully ...

Silvana De Mari

#24. Contemplatives are not likely to become gamblers, or procurers, or drunkards; they do not as a rule preach intolerance, or make war; do not find it necessary to rob, swindle or grind the faces of the poor.

Aldous Huxley

#25. The propensity to swindle grows parallel with the propensity to speculate during a boom the implosion of an asset price bubble always leads to the discovery of frauds and swindles

Charles P. Kindleberger

#26. If any man thinks to swindle God, he is wrong.

Pindar

#27. The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

Red Cloud

#28. She believed everything had held, that it would all be just as she had left it, that the years wouldn't dare swindle her of this homecoming.

Jaina Sanga

#29. A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl. They do some great stuff and then - it's called mission drift. It becomes more about the parties.

Sam Simon

#30. Things haven't always been this bad. Therefore, they won't always be this bad.

Carrie Fletcher

#31. Our last impression of her as she turned the corner was that smile, flung backward like a handful of flowers.

Wallace Stegner

#32. It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.

Gary Carr

#33. The difference between insanity and genius is measured only by success and failure.

Masashi Kishimoto

#34. Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

Neil Kurshan

#35. He swung around. His body, bathed in the first rays of the sun, was stippled
with color like a stained glass saint.

Cameron Dane

#36. It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.

Lorik Cana

#37. Some websites may have books or documents that you want

Amazon

#38. A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

Reginald Horace Blyth

#39. The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

Kate Winslet

#40. That transparency is important. Look at what's inside products and seek out those that contain natural, plant-based ingredients - from toothpaste to cosmetics.

Sophie Heyman Uliano

#41. When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

Donnell Rawlings

#42. I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it?

Stephanie Perkins

#43. Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

Bobby Robson