Samuel Johnson Quotes

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

In trust I have found treason.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

The world loves to be deceived.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

I think we're lied to about a number of things.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

My first husband was a serial cheater.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

For every betrayed woman, there is always the betrayer, man.

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.

I think, basically, if you talk to anybody, you can gauge an idea of what it's like to feel deceived. You don't have to have run into a con artist to feel like you've been deceived by someone.

Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.

Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.

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