Thomas Hood Quotes

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

We wouldn’t want to live in a world where we couldn’t be conned. Because, in effect, we would then be living in a world where we mistrusted or refused to trust anyone.

I've been a big blagger all my life.

I prank my manager. I tell him I've lost my passport, or I've lost my case, or I hide his case. He is so gullible, he is the most gullible person ever.

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

The world loves to be deceived.

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

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.