Lilith Saintcrow Quotes

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.

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 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.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

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

People are just too hopeful, and sometimes hope is the biggest weapon of all to use against us. People will believe anything.

How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation.

I was so gullible as a kid.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

Those who know nothing must believe everything.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about.

As I say, it never ceases to amaze me how gullible some of our Church members are.

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon.

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled.