Cheat Quotes - Page 21

• Self-analysis always cheats.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Analysis, Self Analysis

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• I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf.

  Barack Obama

  Golf, Proud, Facts

  "Obama Proud He Doesn't Cheat at Golf". Interview with Bill Simmons, nation.foxnews.com. March 1, 2012.

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• I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.

  William Avery

  Boys, Ems, Want

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• Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

  Dennis Hopper

  Artist, Generations, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• You can't cheat the public for long.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Long

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• In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.

  Herbert Wilf

  Science, Mathematics

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• You may talk about Free Love, if you please, but we are to have the right to vote. Today we are fined, imprisoned, and hanged, without a jury trial by our peers. You shall not cheat us by getting us off to talk about something else. When we get the suffrage, then you may taunt us with anything you please, and we will then talk about it as long as you please.

  Lucy Stone

  Sex, Long, Peers

  "History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2". Book by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1882.

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• Cheat me not with time,
  with the dull ache of flesh,
  for all flesh turns,
  even the loveliest
  ankle and frail thigh,
  to bitterest dust.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Dust, Ankles

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.287, New Directions Publishing

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• By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority . . .

  Jacob Bronowski

  Trying, Prejudice, Cost

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• So the dubbed conceit
  Played nursery of cheat
  To clear the I of sleet.

  Allen Tate

  Nursery, Conceit, Clear

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.126, Macmillan

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• When you're in the public eye, it's wrong to cheat on someone, unless you're very careful. If you're normal and no one's going to know, then do it.

  Paris Hilton

  Eye, Normal, Careful

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• I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

  Bernard Moitessier

  Beautiful, Cheating, Peace

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• 8. Fact: It is a bad idea to date a known cheater, because even if he doesn't cheat on you, you will always know he's capable of it and will never fully trust him. Then you will become even more insecure and neurotic than you already are.

  E. Lockhart

  Insecure, Cheater, Ideas

  E. Lockhart (2016). “Ruby Oliver 3: The Treasure Map of Boys”, p.149, Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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• Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Liars, Hero, Killers

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.132, Faber & Faber

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• We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Artist, Men, People

  SIDNEY SHELDON (1985). “IF TOMORROW COMES”

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• Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he’s a terrible kisser to boot.” Evie’s parents stared in stunned silence. “Or so I’ve heard.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Silence, Parent

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• That I might live alone once with my gold!
  O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
  A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
  Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
  That which makes all men false, is true itself.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Brother, Money

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.

  Terry McMillan

  Doctors, Scratches, Sometimes

  Terry McMillan (2013). “Who Asked You?”, p.17, Penguin

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• Drug users made me. They taught me. I didn't know how to work a scale; I didn't know what a gram was. Drug users taught me the business. They're going to teach it to the next guy, because they want a good drug dealer, one they can trust, one that's not going to rob them, one that's not going to cheat them out of their money, one that's not going to sell them fake dope. That was me. They're going to find another one because they're going to be looking for that guy every single day until they find him.

  Rick Ross

  Dope, Fake, Guy

  Source: www.brownpoliticalreview.org

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• Love is a flame to burn out human wills,
  Love is a flame to set the will on fire,
  Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

  John Masefield

  Life, Love Is, Men

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!

  Jiri Kylian

  Dance, Teacher, Ballet Class

  "In conversation: Jiri Kylian on the choreographer's art". Interview to Dance Magazine, November 1, 1994.

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• I don't start a novel until I have lived with the story for awhile to the point of actually writing an outline and after a number of books I've learned that the more time I spend on the outline the easier the book is to write. And if I cheat on the outline I get in trouble with the book.

  John Grisham

  Book, Writing, Numbers

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• We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Mirrors, Hair, Ideas

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• If they cheat, can I shoot them?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Ifs

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.410, Penguin

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• And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Desire, Trying

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.411, e-artnow

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