Quotes About Swindler

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

One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was," said Popper. His philosophy was "empty verbiage put together in statements which are absolutely empty."19 On this even Carnap—not Popper's biggest fan—concurred.

Once Count Victor Lustig, swindler par excellence, had sold dozens of suckers around the country a phony box with which he claimed to be able to copy money. Discovering

Ahmed, who regarded himself as an expert on the works and handwriting of Borges, had accepted the book because he was confident that sooner or later he'd find a buyer: a learned fool or a swindler, in either case, a snob. Maybe he would sell it for a fortune one day. Maybe not. And maybe one day Severina will tear out some of her hair and scatter it over my body.

once claimed his employer was Jesus Christ and Company. He was a swindler, insurance salesman, debt collector, a member of the Illinois bar;

And yet these leaders of the fashion know, Ã¢â'¬â€ at any rate they believe, Ã¢â'¬â€ that he is what he is because he has been a swindler greater than other swindlers.

You're naught but a human man. You couldn't possibly understand." He lifted a brow, still smiling. "Liar." "Cutpurse." "Runaway." "Swindler! "Coward," he said softly, and she jerked back. "Bastard!" "Undoubtedly true." He made a short bow.

That swindler, he tricked my ma and got away with it too. But he didn't even slow her down. It's good to cry a bit,'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is tough, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.

Bowie was a seasoned swindler, always on the make, a man who fled to Texas rather than face the consequences of a series of land frauds he had attempted back in Arkansas and Louisiana.

My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.

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A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.

I was, indeed, greatly irritated at the bishop's having suggested any grounds of suspicion, however remotely, against a person whom he had never seen: and I thought of letting him know my mind in Greek: which, at the same time that it would furnish some presumption that I was no swindler, would also (I hoped) compel the bishop to reply in the same language; in which case, I doubted not to make it appear, that if I was not so rich as his lordship, I was a far better Grecian.

The Devil is by no means the worst that there is; I would rather have dealings with him than with many a human being. He honours his agreements much more promptly than many a swindler on Earth. To be true, when payment is due he comes on the dot; just as twelve strikes, fetches his soul and goes off home to Hell like a good Devil. He's just a businessman as is right and proper. —-J.N. NESTROY, Hollenangst

There was genuine regret in his face as he showed her that trifling attention. He was a vagabond and a cheat; he had lived a mean, shuffling, degraded life, but he was human; and she had found her way to the lost sympathies in him which not even the self-profanation of a swindler's existence could wholly destroy. Damn

brutally, like men who think they have to deal with a swindler or a madman — it depends on their nature. I have been buried under the dead; but now I am buried under the living, under papers, under facts, under the whole of society, which wants to shove me underground again!

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law.

He was suddenly aware of the pain rampaging through him. "Where's Swindler?" "Here." He crouched beside Sterling. "We got the boy." Sterling grabbed his shirt, then cursed himself as he fell backward, bringing Swindler with him. "Never make her cry." He didn't know if Swindler nodded, because his entire world went black.

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!