cheats never prosper

cheats never prosper

proverb People who use dishonest means will not find true success. I'm not too worried about Eric getting ahead of me in the class rankings. I know he cheated on his last test, and cheats never prosper!
See also: cheat, never, prosper
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Cheats never prosper.

 and Cheaters never prosper.
Prov. If you cheat people, they will not continue to do business with you, and so your business will fail. Customer: You charged me for ten artichokes, but you only gave me nine. Grocer: Too bad. You should have counted them before you paid for them. Customer: Cheats never prosper, you know.
See also: Cheat, never, prosper
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • by no means
  • not by any means
  • not for a second
  • not for a minute
  • not for a moment
  • aint
  • ain't
  • be like ships in the night
  • not for a instant
  • not for a/one minute/moment/second/instant
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Is the genre right not to trust its readers with anything other than adult fairy tales in which cheats never prosper? Our judicial system shares this lack of confidence and is equally simplistic upon the matter.
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They say cheats never prosper but oneupmanship is to be expected - at international level it's better than onedownmanship.
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Then the lecture from Miss Pendlebury on why cheats never prosper, on the reasons why cheating only hurts yourself, that achievement however meagre should always be its own reward.
Who says cheats never prosper?
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We're told that winning isn't everything, that cheats never prosper, that a desire to win at all costs is the province of cold-eyed, cold-hearted fanatics who have lost sight of the beauty of pure competition.
Winning is ever ything - just don't tell me the result
I hope the BOA has the backbone to uphold her ban and prove that cheats never prosper.
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So who said cheats never prosper? Four of the biggest clubs in Italian football may have been shamed by corruption but the national team restored a country's pride and dignity last night with a tense penalty shootout victory over France.
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But cheats never prosper and when I tracked her down in the car park she was looking about as happy as she would if her hairdresser ran out of bleach.
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Didn't your mother ever tell you that cheats never prosper?
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He looked me straight in the eye and told me "cheats never prosper".
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