Gulled Quotes & Sayings

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. — Newt Gingrich

Government isn't a good way to solve problems ... [G]overnment is concerned mostly with self-perpetuation and is subject to fantastic ideas about its own capabilities ... [G]overnment is wasteful of the nation's resources, immune to common sense and subject to pressure from every half-organized bouquet of assholes ... [G]overnment is distrustful of and disrespectful toward average Americans while being easily gulled by Americans with money, influence or fame. — P. J. O'Rourke

[On her mother:] I was in nervous flight from her ever since I can remember anything, and from the age of fourteen I set myself obdurately against her in a kind of inner emigration from everything she represented. Girls do have to grow up, but has this battle always been so implacable? — Doris Lessing

Unfair. I was fighting with some core, self-fulfilling loneliness that made me push people away. — C.D. Reiss

We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled. — Michel De Montaigne

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. — John Ruskin

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies. — Jeffrey Kluger

You are a souvenir shop, where he goes to remember how much people miss him when he is gone. — Sierra DeMulder

When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone. — Vaginal Davis

Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies. — Jill Lepore

The job market, however, proved distressingly uncooperative. All of the local barista positions had been filled by more enterprising philosophy majors, and Arthur lacked the skills to do much beyond make a cup of coffee. — J. Zachary Pike

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself. — Richard Dawkins

I do think you should be more careful how you choose your friends. You are so credulous, dear, so easily gulled. I suppose it is being a writer and having so much imagination. If you were older and had more experience of life you would have been on guard at once. — Agatha Christie

Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything. — C.S. Lewis

If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. — Robert Burton

All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. — James Baldwin

I've always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist. — Adam Shankman

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few. — William Shenstone

The German people have no idea of the extent to which they have to be gulled in order to be led. — Adolf Hitler

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. — John Steinbeck

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear. — Joan D. Vinge

Imposters, in one shape or another, are likely to flourish as long as human nature remains what it is and society shows itself ready to be gulled. — Steve Berry

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen. — Thomas Frank