Edna O'Brien Quotes

Drink deeply from good books.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

If you're innocent, you have very little knowledge of the world, and you want to succeed. People with parasitic interests will see you as their prey.

Don't be naive and allow a man to take advantage of you.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries.

He who has had, has been, but he who hasn't been, has been had.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

Books are the curse of the human race.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous--so predictably easy.

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.

You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls," said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. "These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." "It sounds intriguing," admitted Eragon. "Always the scholar, aren't you?" asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. "Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.