Cheating Quotes

PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. (Ambrose Bierce)
Anything worth having is a thing worth cheating for. View quote
W. C. Fields
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. View quote
Salvador Dalí
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves. View quote
George Eliot
It's not the cheating. It's the hunger for an alternative. The refusal to accept unhappiness. View quote
Tom Perrotta
It is helpful to think of people as having two fundamental motivations: the desire to see ourselves as honest, good people, and the desire to gain the benefits that come from cheating - on our taxes or on the football field. View quote
Dan Ariely
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves. View quote
Dan Ariely
For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
If you cannot work on the marriage or the women is a moron, staying married and cheating makes the most sense because divorce is disruptive to the family life and your bank account. View quote
Al Goldstein
I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes. View quote
Ben E. King
Become good at cheating and you never need to become good at anything else. (Banksy)
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. View quote
Emil Cioran
I learned that people in wheelchairs are allowed to have marathons ... which, to me, seems like cheating, but what are you gonna say? View quote
Sarah Silverman
Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth. View quote
Adrienne Rich
The intention of cheating no one lays us open to being cheated ourselves. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself of the better portion of your just compensation. View quote
Napoleon Hill
There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning. View quote
George MacDonald
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely. View quote
Malcolm X
Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I know all about cheating. I've had six very successful marriages. View quote
Bobby Heenan
It is in this sense that Franklin says, "war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating. (Karl Marx)
Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Once you've started cheating, does it really matter what your methods are? View quote
Sophie Kinsella
Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash. View quote
Dan Ariely
Bad karma is the spiritual debt one has accumulated for one's mistakes from all previous lives and this life. It includes killing, harming, taking advantage, cheating, stealing, and more. On Mother Earth, when you buy a house, you take out a mortgage from a bank. This mortgage is your debt to the bank. You pay every month for fifteen, twenty, or thirty years to clear your financial debt. In the spiritual realm, if you have bad karma, you may have to pay for many lifetimes to clear your spiritual debt. View quote
Zhi Gang Sha