Fritz Hollings Quotes

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

Yes, I know I've played these women, but I'm not really conniving at all.

He [Jack Kemp] is dumber than he looks and even more two faced than I depict him!

Maniacal self-promoter …. Makes Machiavelli look like a simple, straightforward kinda guy.

… a man steeped in falsehood … who had recourse to the lie whenever it suits his convenience …. He would sell his grandmother for any advantage.

... a charlatan, a mountebank, a zany without sense or dignity.

I've been a big blagger all my life.

I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

Kellyanne Conway is one of the most dishonest humans ever to grace the office she holds.

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.

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!

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

Eddie's up there. He's lyin' to somebody, he's cheatin' somebody, and he's stolen all of our hearts.

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

I'm reliable sources, I'll tell ya anything you want me to know.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.

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

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

If you ain't trying to cheat a little, you ain't likely to win much.