Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.

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

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog's name. Then I said, 'Does he bite?' She said, 'No.' And I said, 'Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?' Liar.

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

Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

In trust I have found treason.

It is not wise to trust a man with a deceitful speech ... for he will definitely manipulate your sayings and give a different meaning to your saying and decisions, for he would not care to keep the truth intact

Treat your friends as if they were going to be your enemies one day.

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.

Trust has always been a hard issue in my life, and when I was with the UFC, it was hard for me to trust people because it was like I was seeing lies, up to lies, up to lies.

As someone who specializes in deception, I'll tell you this much: When someone insistently implores, 'Believe me,' don't. Pleading 'believe me' or 'trust me' - insisting to people that you are telling the truth - is a tell-tale sign that you probably aren't.

I know what it feels like to lie to people. I know what it feels like for people not to trust you.

You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

I detest those who deceive me.

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight