Swindled Quotes & Sayings

Groucho Marx shot back angrily, "The Sandy McPhersons and Yonny Yohnsons were not a minority being subjected to oppression, restriction, segregation or persecution. — Kliph Nesteroff

Fine," she said, but didn't let up on the gas. "I'm not getting a bad vibe here anyway." "You're not? Because teh minute I see people waving guns in public, I know the vibe ain't good. — Karina Halle

Daring also means to act, however, and if you are not willing to act, then you have already lost the game. — Stephen Richards

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes it could be the smallest thing that could topple over a whole life, and, in the end, destroy it. — Nova Ren Suma

I don't know how you do it."
"Don't eat for three days," I mumbled around a mouthful of fish. "You'd be surprised how fast you can shovel it in. You don't even need to breathe."
"No, I mean holding pain. But your eating is impressive too. — Janice Hardy

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more. — Simone De Beauvoir

And to my dog, without whom I would not be reminded daily that I am essentially little more than a ridiculous human being who has somehow swindled somebody into paying me to write down conversations with my imaginary friends. — Jim Butcher

There is an alternative to war. It's staying in bed and growing your hair. — John Lennon

When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it. — Gordon Sinclair

So after they'd been swindled and bamboozled by the Terrans enough times they retreated to their home planets and bolted all the doors and drew all the curtains. Terrans are tricky customers to deal with even for other humans, so a saintly robot would have had no chance. — J.H.G. Foss

I don't rely on muscle power to dig, I use a sharp spade and I wear boots. — Janet Macunovich

You will be swindled by termite exterminators and not even know it. You will buy steel-belted radial tires for the front wheels of your car. — Kurt Vonnegut

The English youth's face simply showed a lively surprise, but nothing more. He went swinging along valleyward again, as if he did not know he had just swindled a coroner — Mark Twain

I wish I could just be in the movies and still enjoy everything else like a normal person. — Orlando Bloom

The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the more likely you are to be conned, and for the greater a sum. Since people regularly dispose of their intelligence in their rush to be swindled, and then turn right around and do it again, humans must want to be duped. Institutionalized wishful thinking - the stock market, religion, advertising - is after all a cornerstone of our system. — Luc Sante

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

We invited that nice young man, Dave Brewer, who swindled all those people out of their houses, Grandma said, pulling a meatloaf out of the oven. — Janet Evanovich

Lillian did not know then that the one who believes he can pay this early debt meets a bottomless well. Because the first denial has set off a fatality of revenge which no amount of giving can placate. — Anais Nin

Grimspace is a bitch mistress who carries unearthly delight in one hand and a crop in the other. — Ann Aguirre

Judge really underestimated how fucking smart the damn detective was. He had set his own self up, falling for Michaels' charm, his intoxicating eyes and seductive smile as he let himself get swindled in a deal. But Judge never ever went back on his word. Now he was bent over a counter, legs spread and ass open. Judge — A.E. Via

How Miserable this God smelled! How ridiculously bad the scent that this God let spill from Him. It was not even genuine frankincense fuming out of those thuribles. A bad substitute, adulterated with linden and cinnamon dust and saltpeter. God stank. God was a poor little stinker. He had been swindled, this God had, or was Himself a swindler, no different from Grenouille-only a considerably worse one! — Patrick Suskind

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? — Erica Jong

Probably look like fucking Captain Hook. — Helen Harper

I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more. — Sarah Tomp

I didn't want fine. I wanted to be somebody. Somebody with plenty of money. — Donald Jans

I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness. — Thomas Jefferson

Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene. — Tallulah Bankhead

I never was in such a horrid office ... It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it? — Nevil Shute

Men have been swindled by other men on many occasions. The autumn of 1929 was, perhaps, the first occasion when men succeeded on a large scale in swindling themselves. — John Kenneth Galbraith