11 Quotes by Frank W. Abagnale

Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it ‘U.R. Hooked’ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver’s license for identification.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

A con artist’s only weapon is his brain.

Dad just smiled wryly. “You’ll learn, Frank, that when you’re up there’re hundreds of people who’ll claim you as a friend. When you’re down, you’re lucky if one of them will buy you a cup of coffee. If I had it to do over again, I’d select my friends more carefully. I do have a couple of good friends. They’re not wealthy, but one of them got me my job in the post office.

The fox who keeps to one den is the easiest caught by the terriers, and I felt I had nested too long in one place.

My one sensuous fault was women. I had a Cyprian lust for them.

It’s not what a man has but what a man is that’s important. This car is fine for me. It gets me around. I know who I am and what I am, and that’s what counts, not what other people might think of me.

I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there’s a touch of class involved.

THERE IS ENCHANTMENT in a uniform, especially one that marks the wearer as a person of rare skills, courage or achievement. A.