Cheat Quotes

• Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

  John D. MacDonald

  Cheating, Honesty, Integrity

  "The Turquoise Lament". Book by John D. MacDonald, November 1973.

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• No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cheating

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• Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

  Will Smith

  Inspirational, Lying, Arms

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• Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can.

  Kim Cattrall

  Dog, Cheating, Men

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• I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

  Sophocles

  Life, Cheating, Failure

  David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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• Earthquakes just happen. Tornadoes just happen. Your tongue does not just happen to fall into some other girl's mouth!

  Gemma Halliday

  Girl, Cheating, Fall

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• When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Husband, Father

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.92, A&C Black

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• I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Cheating, Believe

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• The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

  Henry Mayhew

  Cheating, Boys, Stealing

  Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labor and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.26

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

  Pearl Bailey

  Inspirational, Cheating, Self

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• In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Cheating, Thinking

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• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Cheating, Children

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.52, Vintage

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• They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.

  John Lee Hooker

  Cheating, Play, Long

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• It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

  Uma Thurman

  Relationship, Cheating, Doe

  Interview with Laura Yorke in "Reader's Digest" Magazine, July 2006.

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• Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

  Norman Mailer

  Lying, Sentimental, Each Day

  1959 Advertisements for Myself,'First Advertisement for Myself'.

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• No, we don't cheat. And even if we did, I'd never tell you.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Cheating, Ifs

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• Love is a game in which one always cheats.

  Honore de Balzac

  Cute Love, Cheating, Love Is

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• Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

  George E. Allen, Sr.

  Moving On, Cheating, World

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• If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.

  Tony Lema

  Golf

  Anthony David Lema, Tony Lema (1966). “Champagne Golf”

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• Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.

  Tom Daschle

  Cheating, Mistake, Cheater

  "Daschle On Tax Cheats: IRS Should Enforce Laws". Congressional Record, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 7, 1998.

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• Steroids are for guys who want to cheat opponents.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Cheating, Guy

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• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Franz Kafka

  Cheating, Loneliness, Mean

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• A guy who'd cheat on his wife would cheat at cards.

  Texas Guinan

  Cheating, Wife, Guy

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• You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back.

  Alexander Turney Stewart

  Inspirational, Cheating, Educational

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