Cheat Quotes - Page 13

• ..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Names, Want, Syllables

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.99, St. Martin's Griffin

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• People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Feel Better, Thinking, Arrows

  "The Last Wish". Book by Andrzej Sapkowski, 1993.

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• Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.

  Richelle Mead

  Rose, Cards, Want

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.231, Penguin

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• I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.

  Jane Austen

  Mean, Doubt, Together

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.185, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first. - Ender

  Orson Scott Card

  Care, Tests, Firsts

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.216, Macmillan

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• I did not dive and I am not a cheat. That is not the way I play.

  Robert Pires

  Play, Way

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• ORATORY, n. A conspiracy between speech and action to cheat the understanding. A tyranny tempered by stenography.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Cheating, Understanding, Oratory

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “The Best Of Ambrose Bierce: The Damned Thing + An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge + The Devil's Dictionary + Chickamauga (4 Classics in 1 Book)”, p.170, e-artnow

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• Demons don't play by the rules. They lie and they cheat and they stab in the back.

  Alan Grant

  Cheating, Lying, Play

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• Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

  Vivien Leigh

  Cheating, Father, War

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• The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Heartbreaking, Moments, Present Moment

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes. . . .

  Dave Barry

  Money, Business, Real

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• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give.

  John Dryden

  Life, Running, Lying

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Children, Pride

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• What if I forgave myself? I thought. What if I forgave myself even though I'd done something I shouldn't have? What if I was a liar and a cheat and there was no excuse for what I'd done other than because it was what I wanted and needed to do? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Liars, What If, Done

  "Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail". Book by Cheryl Strayed, March 20, 2012.

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• I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.

  Archibald Cox

  Lying, Home, Plot

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• Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.

  Peter Singer

  Cheating, Bears, Grudge

  Peter Singer (1982). “The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology”, Plume

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• Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

  W. C. Fields

  Uncles, Men, Giving

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• I very little, you cheat big! – Short Round

  James Kahn

  Littles, Bigs, Rounds

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• I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Games, Childhood, Youth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• He that cheats another is a knave; but he that cheats himself is a fool.

  Karl G. Maeser

  Cheating, Knaves, Fool

  Sentence-Sermons from Brigham Young University Quarterly. The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Volume 70, 1908.

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• If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Ifs

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• I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people. And there are certain people I am allergic to. I even intervene when I don't like a customer; I rush in and check all the names. If I don't like them, I don't take them.

  Azzedine Alaia

  Names, People, World

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• Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

  Edward Bates

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.

  Simon Sinek

  Care, I Care

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• If you have the winning cards, why cheat?

  John McAfee

  Winning, Cards, Ifs

  "Good Morning America", June 1991.

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