W. C. Fields Quotes

I have taken advantage of my husband, to the extent that I even got HBO to do a documentary with me.

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

This is very clever. They have created a system to cheat.

There's a difference between fair game and playing games.

Suspect power more than vice.

As a businessman, Trump preyed on the hopes and anxieties of struggling middle-class families. He cheated and scammed employees and customers alike. He left behind a trail of bankrupted companies. Past is prologue, and Trump has continued to pursue his own aggrandizement ruthlessly and relentlessly as a candidate and as president-elect.

Politicians will only exploit you for nothing.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

I don't need to show anybody anything other than getting the guy out who is trying to make his money off of me.

The cheaters are going to find way to cheat over and over again.

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

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!

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

Washington knows that it is not safe to kick people who are down until you find out what their next stop will be.

You are always cheating for the audience.

So each man, like each plant, has his parasites. A strong, astringent, bilious nature has more truculent enemies than the slugs and moths that fret my leaves. Such a one has curculios, borers, knife-worms; a swindler ate him first, then a client, then a quack, then smooth, plausible gentlemen, bitter and selfish as Moloch.

Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great con trick; it was a mechanism to earn a few hundred men and women incredible sums of money.

As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.

For, contrary to the common opinion, it is the wealthy who are greedy of wealth; while the populace are to be gained by talking to them about liberty, their unknown god. And so much are they enchanted by the words liberty, freedom, and such like, that the wise can go to the poor, rob them of what little they have, dismiss them with a hearty kick, and win their hearts and their votes for ever, if only they will assure them that the treatment which they have received is called liberty.

Trust is always a good idea. For someone else.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.