Beast Quote by Upton Sinclair

“They could tell the whole hateful story of it, set forth in the inner soul of a city in which honor and justice, women's…

— Upton Sinclair

“…for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been…

— Upton Sinclair

In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.

— Albert Camus

“Concealing himself from his father's wrath, behind the barn with wick turned low and his face two inches from the rough sawtooth page, Young…

— Loren D. Estleman

“Once Count Victor Lustig, swindler par excellence, had sold dozens of suckers around the country a phony box with which he claimed to be…

— Robert Greene

“Now driving in a wild frieze of headlong horses with eyes walled and teeth cropped and naked riders with clusters of arrows clenched in…

— Cormac McCarthy

“There is a sense, I think, in which the swindler and the swindled deserve each other. It is a kind of mutual humiliation society.”

— Teju Cole

“If any of the numbers people were arrested, Willard and Mariah Redd carried the money to set them free. Being arrested with policy slips…

— John W. Harshaw

“The secret is this: people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the moment in which they feel alive, to ride…

— Neil Gaiman

“Walshes had been taking advantage of gullibility and stupidity ever since they conned their fellow cavemen out of their spears. Highwaymen, pirates, swindlers, and…

— Kelley Armstrong

“The arrangement Atlantic made with Garrett Woods was for Baldwin to be borrowed, from time to time, to oversee “projects.” What Baldwin actually did…

— J.T. Ellison

“All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I…

— Charles Dickens