Eliza Cook Quotes

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

Trust makes way for treachery.

Who lies for you will lie against you.

As to you, sir, treacherous in private friendship and … a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.

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.

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.

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

My whole life has been a lie.

Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.

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.

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

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

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

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived.

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.