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Quotes About Deception

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
~ Vittorio Alfieri
There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
~ R. K. Milholland
Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood.
~ Anne Mallory
Once I was adviced never to trust a pretty face. Well, and what should I do when a meet a shithead?
~ William C. Brown
Never trust a demon. He has a hundred motives for anything he does... ninety-nine of them, at least, are malevolent.
~ Neil Gaiman
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
~ Samuel Johnson
Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.
~ Lucretius
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
~ Samuel Johnson
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that's false Before you trust in critics.
~ Lord Byron
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
~ John Dryden
The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.
~ Ralph Steadman
Never trust a guy who plucks his eyebrows.
~ Robert Pattinson
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
~ Morgan Brittany
Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?
~ Mike Farrell
Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.
~ Wes Fesler
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
~ Isobelle Carmody
People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.
~ Dick Francis, 10 lb Penalty
What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover?
~ Simon R. Green
Trust not too much to appearances
~ Virgil
Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.
~ Frank Bidart
There is none deceived but he that trusts.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan
~ Terry Goodkind
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Never trust anyone who tells you how people come to trust them.
~ Katherine Boo