Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

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.

Fraud makes the world go round.

The low minded are fond of deception the nature of low-minded people never changes.

Adults end up shading things and shading the truth, and you end up lying and telling people what they want to hear.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

Through . . . lies you try to run your life and manipulate others. . . . Lies become an inhibitor in your relationship . . . .

I've cheated, or someone on my team has cheated, in almost every single game I've been in.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake.

In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric.

Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it.

Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.

Lying is, almost by definition, a refusal to cooperate with others. It condenses a lack of trust and trustworthiness into a single act. It is both a failure of understanding and an unwillingness to be understood. To lie is to recoil from relationship.