Lisa Stansfield Quotes

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.

You just want fame so bad. You want success so bad. You just believe anybody who conjures up a pretty contract and they're telling you all these sweet nothings I guess.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Who naught suspects is easily deceived.

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

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.

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

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Don't let people treat you like you're stupid. If it sounds too good to be true, it is.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

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.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

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

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Most people are sceptical about the wrong things and gullible about the wrong things.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

Credulity without enquiry is a sure way to deceive oneself.

In politics where immediate success is attained by saying what people can be made to believe, rather than what is demonstrably true, accent is generally placed on the desirable rather than on the possible.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them

I'm sorry - I know America is supposed to be the land of the dreams and hopes, but it's like, when was that actually a real thing? I think from the very beginning it was all a lie, and it still kind of is. Stop trying to sell the picket fence, because there's another backyard here that you haven't looked at.

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it. We are ready and want to be fooled by someone or the other, be it a baba or a politician.

For a long time, I was very naive and very trusting. I Just didn't think anyone would want to do anything to harm me, but I learned through trial and error that that's not the case.