Margo Price Quotes

I used to trust people easily, but now I'm a little careful because some experiences have taught me to not trust anyone blindly.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

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.

When you grow up, people don't speak the truth. You can see, when you trust people, you help them.

I was so gullible as a kid.

I'm gullible.

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.

I maybe trust too much.

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.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

Never trust sheep.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.