Con Quotes

270 quotes by 199 authors

Iâ€™ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I… — Matt Bomer
The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to… — Danny Trejo
Top-shelf fiction, a Crown Royal ride into the heart of Night and New York. Con Lehane's work is reminiscent of the best of Lawrence Block,… — George Pelecanos
The prison is not the only institution that has posed complex challenges to the people who have lived with it and have become so inured… — Angela Davis
Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a… — Larry Holmes
A tease is a con. You press a spot because you know that it can be pressed, and while the sucker is feeling the pleasure… — George W. S. Trow
There is, howÂever, a strong empirÂiÂcal reaÂson why we should culÂtiÂvate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be… — Carl Jung
My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and… — Paul Thomas Anderson
I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a… — William Melmoth
Pay attention to the voice within. . . . Sometimes the voice of your conscience gets drowned out by crowd noise or by the pep… — Price Pritchett
In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the… — Richard Dawkins
Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game. — Joe McGinniss
Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded… — Hunter S. Thompson
When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point… — Oswald Spengler
I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture. — Warren G. Harding
Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers. The… — Chris Hedges
The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you have lived with… — Glen Cook
Owing to the difficulty of dealing with substances of high molecular weight we are still a long way from having determined the chemical characteristics and… — Karl Landsteiner
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on… — Benjamin Franklin
Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust… — Martin Mayer

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