Charles Curtis Quotes

Machination is worth more than force.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Tactics are manipulative.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

You let men in power assume power for the Little Man. But you yourself remain silent. You give men in power or impotent people with evil intentions the power to represent you. Only too late do you realize that again and again you are being defrauded

Intelligence can be used to manipulate.

If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud; and what they have acquired either by deceit or violence, in order to conceal the disgraceful methods of attainment, they endeavor to sanctify with the false title of honest gains.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

The whole world is run on bluff.

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

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

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

Great liars are also great magicians.

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

People lie, and they always are very very creative in finding new ways to lie.

We avenge intellect when we dupe a fool, and it is a victory not to be despised for a fool is covered with steel and it is often very hard to find his vulnerable part.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.