Quotes About Swindle

swindled Magellan by falsifying their bills of lading. They vastly overstated the amount of supplies they sold to the fleet

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.

A few years back, a con to trick

It's common knowledge that the church is nothing more than an invention of the priesthood designed to swindle the ordinary people of the empire out of just about everything they own.

He was filled with embarrassment: embarrassment for the human race, its preoccupation with money, it love of swindle.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

Mercerism is a swindle.' The whole experience of empathy is a swindle.

Have you ever known anyone swindled by a scam? It's remarkable how determined they remain, and for how long, to defend the swindler—and to shift blame to those who tried to warn them of the swindle. The pain of being seen as a fool hurts more than the loss of money; it's more important to protect the ego against indignity than to visit justice upon the perpetrator. We human beings so often prefer a lie that affirms us to a truth that challenges us.

Never give a sucker an even break.

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected the ballot is a cunning swindle benefiting only the united barons of industry, trade, and property.

In the hands of a people whose education has been willfully neglected, the ballot is a cunning swindle benefitting only the united barons of industry, trade and property.

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment.

Soup is just a way of screwing you out of a meal.

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

We would rather be comfortable than to hold people accountable. We swindle ourselves into thinking that things are better than they are, and in so doing we compromise the calling and standards of the God we say we love and serve.