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Quotes About Deception

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
~ Rene Descartes
Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight
~ Sister Souljah
I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.
~ Troy Kennedy Martin
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies.
~ Bette Davis
Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.
~ Will Smith
Even that some people try deceived me many times ... I will not fail to believe that somewhere, someone deserves my trust.
~ Aristotle
He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
~ Robert Jordan
Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.
~ Greg Behrendt
Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.
~ Jack Butler Yeats
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill; All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.
~ George Crabbe
I don't trust the church or the government, and anything the church or the government tells me I assume to be a lie or a conspiracy, until proven true.
~ Killer Mike
If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that we do not really confide in Him, and hence failure arises.
~ George Muller
That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.
~ Roger Zelazny
Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.
~ Marvin Hagler
And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
~ Robert Cormier
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
~ William Shakespeare
That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
~ Alexander Haig
Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
~ Virgil
Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.
~ Sara Shepard
Some people are so much afraid of being deceived, that they never venture to trust; like misers, their avarice destroys their gain.
~ Norm MacDonald
You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
~ Hesiod