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Quotes About Cheated

You know the classic lines you get in sci-fi? Whatever it is, it's coming our way, or Get me the President on the line? Well, there's always the one about the enemy being superior, though by the end of the story you mostly feel cheated. This time you won't. The yrr are superior.
~ Frank Schätzing
Kendra emerged from the knapsack. "You cheated," Seth whispered. "Dragons and hydras are stressful enough
~ Brandon Mull
I am going to help show the American people that they too cannot trust him, that this is a man that does not live up to his promises, and this is a man who cheated students in the so-called Trump University.
~ Maxine Waters
The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.
~ Samuel Johnson
There's some guys where I'm like, 'I won that fight and only lost because of the judges,' or I got cheated or whatever. I know I'm a better fighter.
~ Roy Nelson
It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
~ Carson McCullers
That was the way things were. It was like she was mad all the time. Not how a kid gets mad quick so that soon it is all over - but in another way. Only there was nothing to be mad at. Unless the store. But the store hadn't asked her to take the job. So there was nothing to be mad at. It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
~ Carson McCullers
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Attention spans are so limited and ticket prices so high. We're anyway in a business of manipulating emotions. But each film needs to be positioned truthfully so that people don't feel cheated.
~ Vijay Krishna Acharya
Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.
~ Elizabeth Warren
the whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.) I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards of happiness.
~ Charles Bukowski
Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The dead cannot be cheated, cannot be betrayed, unless you carry them with you in your heart and do the crime there.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Revenge is a way of life and definitely some thing that we identify with. We all feel cheated in some way about some thing and how nice it would be to do something about it. I mean ultimately it's not the most Christian of sentiments.
~ Radha Mitchell
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Well, I think you'll find that the soft ones object to being cheated even more than the others. They mind it more because they feel that they've only themselves to blame.
~ Christopher Isherwood
It was one of those cases in which Jean Bart180 would have used the words he used to address to the sea each time he escaped shipwreck: "Cheated you, Englishman!" It is well known that when Jean Bart wanted to insult the ocean he called it the "Englishman.
~ Victor Hugo
But nothing could assuage the unconscious fury of our new and tragic understanding, our sense of having been cheated, our fear, for, however we looked for it, we could not find a fit object for our disgust and despair, and so we attacked everything in our way with an equal and infinite passion…
~ László Krasznahorkai
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
~ Thucydides
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head.
~ Clive Barker
Some people-and I am one of them-hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
~ Thucydides
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
~ Thucydides