John Milton Quotes

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

Oh, Cena. You must think that I was born yesterday.

The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity.

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

I was so gullible as a kid.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them

We wouldn’t want to live in a world where we couldn’t be conned. Because, in effect, we would then be living in a world where we mistrusted or refused to trust anyone.

It's become hard for me to trust people and though I'm the type to go, 'everybody is born good,' you come to question that.

It's one thing to be innocent and another thing to be naive or willfully ignorant.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

Laurel could not see her face but only the back of her neck, the most vulnerable part of anybody, and she thought: Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

A man, well, he'll walk right into Hell with both eyes open. But even the devil can't fool a dog.

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Don't you think people often say other people are tough when they do not know how to cheat them?

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.