Dishonest Gain Quotes

A scam is a scam. A fraud is a fraud. Different rules don't apply in the City than they do for you and me.

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Swindlers and murderers never agree, for they practice distinct professions

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

The gold-digger is the enemy of the honest laborer, whatever checks and compensations there may be. It is not enough to tell me that you worked hard to get your gold. So does the Devil work hard. The way of transgressors may be hard in many respects.

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.