Vincent Canby Quotes

Often what passes for faith in this world is little more than gullibility.

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

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

I believe anything that anyone tells me. I have found that that is the best way to go through life. When I was younger, I used to be more skeptical, but then I found out that most things were true. So I believe tabloids. I believe legends. I believe anything anyone tells me.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Love is a credulous thing.

The mechanic could lift up the bonnet of the car and show me four dwarves strapped to a pair of tandems and tell me that the motor was actually dwarf-powered and that one of the little fellows had to be replaced, and I'd just be numbly writing out a cheque and scribbling 'new dwarf - car' on the stub.

You can't start anything and not trust nobody. You trust everybody until they do something wrong.

It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

Love is an affair of credulity.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

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

I smiled. She smiled. I believed the smile.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

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

I believed him. I was not stupid. I was his wife.

None are deceived but they that confide.

Men are such dupes by choice, that he who would impose upon others never need be at a loss to find ready victims.

Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

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

When credulity comes from the heart it does no harm to the intellect.

Believing that your parents are always right.