Conning Quotes

You can fool some of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. That’s usually enough.

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago.

The best confidence artist makes us feel not as if we're being taken for a ride but as if we are genuinely wonderful human beings who are acting the way wonderful human beings act and getting what we deserve.

A certain portion of the human race / Has certainly a taste for being diddled.

Were all conning ourselves, one way or another, just to get through life.

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

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.

I did rough hustling, what they call 'playing against the wall.' I just played myself with the players, so I would pay; I would make them shill. I would pay certain players and then take from others.

My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.

Either they're trying to con you or they're trying to con themselves.

Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.

I don't like to be talked into anything. I don't want to be cajoled.

I've been a big blagger all my life.

Israel cannot afford to be duped.

I kind of conned you into believing you were falling in love with a healthy person.