[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell; All the other sounds we hear, Flatter, and but cheat… — James Shirley Copy Share Image
Improvisation is empowering because it welcomes the unknown. And since what's impossible is always unknown, it allows me to believe I can… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“Please don’t go. Just stay, talk to me, we can work this out. I know we can. I would never cheat on… — Samantha Towle Copy Share Image
What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and… — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot...… — John Lee Hooker Copy Share Image
..I love your name. I don't want to cheat myself out of a single syllable. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things… — Aretha Franklin Copy Share Image
Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can all be prouder to be human beings, because that's what they were. They make up for a lot of liars,… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Win if you can, lose if you must, always cheat, and if you have to leave the ring, leave tearing it down. — Sputnik Monroe Copy Share Image
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want… — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
“Don't trust a man who claims one a liar or a cheat, they will surely define those words of themselves.” — Robert Vanleeuwen Copy Share Image
Why do you think people cheat?," I asked. "Because they're bored? Because they can? Because they're selfish and think they're entitled to… — Sarah Mlynowski Copy Share Image
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.… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image