->''"It's immoral to let a sucker keep his money."''
-->-- '''Canada Bill Jones''', 19th century poker player

->'''Dilbert:''' I'm just curious: Do you have any qualms about your business plan? Any at all?
->'''Dogbert:''' I'm not sure. Do qualms make you wag?
-->-- ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}''

->''"I just don't understand it: I lie, I cheat, I steal, and I just don't get any respect."''
-->-- '''Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck''', ''Series/TheATeam''

->I’m out to steal every last moment’s peace out of my mark, not just his coin. [[BreakTheHaughty Naught but doubts and despair shall fill the purses of my victims]].
-->--'''Charlatan,''' ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Career Compendium - The Ultimate Career Reference''

->Now, I'm a modest man, but my piecemeal needle scam's an outright masterpiece: some slob shacked [[WrongSideOfTheTracks up here]] buys a box of syringe parts from me for twice what it's worth. He assembles 'em in his rathole, and I buy back the finished product... for a dime against the dollar that I'll get from Ryan. Profit comin', profit goin'. [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ol' Andy]] rambles on about the [[UsefulNotes/{{Objectivism}} Great Chain]]... I got people shellin' out to pull it for me!
-->--'''Augustus Sinclair,''' ''VideoGame/Bioshock2''

->''"Are you not a Great Wizard?"''
->''"Hush, my dear,"'' he said. ''"Don't speak so loud, or you will be overheard--and [[ItsAllAboutMe I should be ruined]]. I'm supposed to be a Great Wizard."''
->''"And aren't you?"'' she asked.
->''"Not a bit of it, my dear; I'm just a common man."''
->''"You're more than that,"'' said the Scarecrow, in a grieved tone; ''"you're a humbug."''
->''"Exactly so!"'' declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. ''"[[TheTrickster I am a humbug.]]"''


->''"I think you are a [[ConMan very bad man]],"'' said Dorothy.
->''"Oh, no, my dear; [[IAmWhatIAm I'm really a very good man, but I'm a very bad Wizard, I must admit.]]"''

-> Even Dorothy had hope that ''"The Great and Terrible Humbug,"'' as she called him, would find a way to send her back to Kansas, and if he did [[EasilyForgiven she was willing to forgive him everything]].

-> Oz, left to himself, smiled to think of his success in giving the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman and the Lion [[MagicFeather exactly what they thought they wanted]]. ''"How can I help being a humbug,"'' he said, ''"[[InherentInTheSystem when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?]]"''


-->--Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz

->''Oh, it really doesn't matter what I do, what I do''
->''As long as I do it with a flair''
->''What effect a little smoke is with a dash of hocus-pocus''
->''And the scent of burning sulfur in the air''

->''I'm a fraud, a hoke, a charlatan, a joke''
->''But they love me everywhere''
->''For it really doesn't matter what I do, what I do''
->''As long as I do it with a flair''
-->--"With a Flair", ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks''
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