I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his…

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

— David Brinkley

“Anything someone gets conned into will never be that great.”

— Roberto Hogue

How I conned the Grand Wizard, David Duke, and his coterie of followers... It has defined me in ways I never could have imagined.

— Ron Stallworth

When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because…

— Jean-Louis Gassee

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned,…

— Robert D. Hare

I definitely have conned a lot of people in my day. I'm not proud of it; it sounds like I am, kind of, now…

— Inbar Lavi

“Some have conscience some others have con science. Beware you're not conned.”

— Vincent Okay Nwachukwu

“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after it and…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.”

— Aaron B. Powell

“Since you're so quick with the texts, you could have provided me with a little help when I was negotiating the price of my…

— Sara Desai

I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel,…

— Lucy Punch

“Those who willingly accept being conned are as corrupt as those who con them.”

— Tom Robbins

The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the more likely…

— Luc Sante

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves…

— Guy Ritchie

“He started to talk about my writing and I stopped listening. It made me feel sick for people to talk about my writing to…

— Hemingway Ernest