Swindled Quotes

#1. So after they'd been swindled and bamboozled by the Terrans enough times they retreated to their home planets and bolted all the doors and drew all the curtains. Terrans are tricky customers to deal with even for other humans, so a saintly robot would have had no chance.

J.H.G. Foss

#2. When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it.

Gordon Sinclair

#3. You will be swindled by termite exterminators and not even know it. You will buy steel-belted radial tires for the front wheels of your car.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. We invited that nice young man, Dave Brewer, who swindled all those people out of their houses, Grandma said, pulling a meatloaf out of the oven.

Janet Evanovich

#5. And to my dog, without whom I would not be reminded daily that I am essentially little more than a ridiculous human being who has somehow swindled somebody into paying me to write down conversations with my imaginary friends.

Jim Butcher

#6. Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

Erica Jong

#7. The English youth's face simply showed a lively surprise, but nothing more. He went swinging along valleyward again, as if he did not know he had just swindled a coroner

Mark Twain

#8. 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

#9. I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more.

Simone De Beauvoir

#10. I never was in such a horrid office ... It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?

Nevil Shute

#11. 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

#12. The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. Farslayer howls across the world
For thy heart! For thy heart! who hast wronged me,
Vengeance is his who casts the Blade,
Yet he will, in the end, no triumph see.

Fred Saberhagen

#14. I watched the first people walk on the moon, and to me, it was just an obvious thing - I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real question is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger?

Chris Hadfield

#15. Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

Sylvia Plath

#16. For the wonder of a first love can never be matched.

Renee Ahdieh

#17. Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#18. I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.

Kristin Hannah

#19. This isn't like a job we have while we go to college. This is what we like - feed ourselves with.

Annie Baker

#20. We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid.

Noam Chomsky

#21. I am truly an angel investor and I'am not a passive investor.As a passive investor, I am awful because I can not put funding into a company and leave it to other people.

Terry Matthews

#22. It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

Luc De Clapiers

#23. I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.

Wynton Marsalis

#24. Proper, deep, enduring joy usually requires a remarkable facility for denial, something which the Danes have in spades.

Michael Booth

#25. I believe in animal rights, human rights, land rights, water rights, air rights.

Rod Coronado

#26. So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

Edward Coke