Annabelle Wallis Quotes

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

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

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

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

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

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.

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!

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

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial.

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

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

I love con-men characters in film.

Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

A humbug!!

… one of the world's most disgraceful scams

It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.

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

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

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

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?