Cheated Quotes

336 quotes by 290 authors

The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war and most prone… — Richard M. Nixon
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but… — Thomas Carlyle
I would fain coin wisdom,â€”mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and… — Joseph Joubert
When cheated, wife or husband feels the same. — Euripides
You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death. — Jorge Luis Borges
Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they… — Jonathan Kozol
I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of… — James Agee
We cheated on our math tests, we carved some dirty words on the desk. — Alice Cooper
Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment… — Michael Gove
[W]e pity our fathers for dying before steam and galvanism, sulphuric ether and ocean telegraphs, photograph and spectrograph arrived, as cheated out of their human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful… — Lil' Kim
God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who… — Jean-Paul Sartre
It's responsible for the sloppiness and imprecision of the War on Terror, for example. It's responsible for taking people's tax dollars and spending the country… — Timothy Hallinan
The world wants to be cheated. So cheat. — Xaviera Hollander
I have made a solemn vow never to send my drawings because people have cheated me. In particular, just today I found... that, having done… — Artemisia Gentileschi
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated… — Harper Lee
Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. — Gore Vidal
There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant. — Anatole France
I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel… — Lady Gaga
Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. — B. C. Forbes

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