Adam Osborne Quotes

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

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

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

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.

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

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

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.

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

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!

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

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

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

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

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

I pretend to be a gentleman, and, when the other fellow finds out, it is too late.

I'm a blagger by trade.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

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

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.