Quotes About Too Good To Be True

#1. Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

Mary Astell

#2. Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

Keke Palmer

#3. Back then I didn't think a woman like that, or a relationship like that, could exist with complete freedom and no jealousy or possessiveness. I thought it sounded too good to be true and I was certainly convinced it wasn't the life for me!

Sylvia Kristel

#4. It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.

Judah Smith

#5. Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true. The American nation in 1790, however, was a real world, laden with legacies like slavery, and therefore too true to be good.

Joseph J. Ellis

#6. Nothing is too good to be true.

Ernest Holmes

#7. Marcus DeLuca had to be a dangerous man because I was caving in too soon; it was just too soon to feel this attachment, to feel and want him so desperately. When something seems too good to be true, it's exactly that. - Mia

E.L. Montes

#8. It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#9. It seemed too good to be true and thus, be human philosophy, clearly false.

Stephenie Meyer

#10. Here's some advice: if it seems too good to be true, then it probably is.

Kol Anderson

#11. If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Michael Douglas

#12. Words can come too easily
Actions can be falsely perceived by hope
Oh! To have a good reason to trust-
that would be the sweetest of joys.
That is of course- the sweetest-
next to genuine true love.

Cheri Bauer

#13. From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true - he probably is.

Candace Bushnell

#14. I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

A.A. Milne

#15. When I was about eight, I realised the person whose name was on the book got money for it, and it seemed almost too good to be true that you could get paid for making things up.

Nick Earls

#16. Nothing is too great or too good to be true. Do not believe that we can imagine things better than they are. In the long run, in the ultimate outlook, in the eye of the Creator, the possibilities of existence, the possibilities open to us, are beyond our imagination.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#17. Not true," said Adrian. "All guys mean the same thing when they want to 'get to know a girl better.' You're a wellbred young lady, so I understand why you'd be too innocent to understand. Good thing you've got me here to interpret.

Richelle Mead

#18. Cousin Jimmy thinks I did perfectly right. Cousin Jimmy would think I had done perfectly right if I had murdered Andrew and buried him in the Land of Uprightness. It's very nice to have one friend like that, though too many wouldn't be good for you.

L.M. Montgomery

#19. What we consider too good to be true, is truth; all else is fallacy

Oshetha Shakoor

#20. If it sounds too good to be true, it always is.

Ricky Jay

#21. Children are certainly too good to be true.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#22. Never Doubt
There comes a moment when you begin to realize that virtually anything is possible - that nothing is too good to be true.

Kobi Yamada

#23. What your heart desires is not too good to be true. It is good enough to be true.

Alan Cohen

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

Sinbad

#25. If it is too good to be true ... it is probably a fraud.

Ron Weber

#26. You see, we all have dreams and we chase after them, as if they're too good to be true, always in the distance. I'm drawn to this because it shows if we believe, we know our dreams are already inside of us, bursting to come out for others to enjoy. At least, that's what I think.

Jennifer Hanes

#27. They say if it's too good to be true, it usually is ... Unless it's me.

Behdad Sami

#28. The next time you think something's too good to be true, remember - so's electricity and sewerage!

Odille Rault

#29. Contrary to what we conclude naturally, the gospel is not too good to be true. It is true! It's the truest truth in the entire universe. No strings attached! No fine print to read. No buts. No conditions. No qualifications. No footnotes. And especially, no need for balance.

Tullian Tchividjian

#30. Maybe the truth of it is that it's too good not to be true.

Frederick Buechner

#31. T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.

Madonna

#32. Angel, you're too good to be true
My heart must be telling lies
For I see Heaven when I look at you
And I see the blue twilight in your eyes

Sarah King

#33. Soometimes when you have something that seems too good to be true, you start waiting for it to crumble to pieces around you.

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#34. If it seems too good to be true... it probably is.

Melody Carlson

#35. Really? It seems too good to be true. I don't trust it. I don't trust anyone.

Julie Anne Peters

#36. Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth.

Tom Stoppard

#37. Wilhelm let go. He turned to look at Rose. His heart seemed ready to leap out of his chest. Could it be? Rose? His Rose. It was too good to be true.

Melanie Dickerson

#38. Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something.

Henry Cloud

#39. When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

Emmy Rossum

#40. I am not fake, I am just too good to be true (-:

Mahsati Abdul

#41. Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before.

C.S. Lewis

#42. I realize that life is not a step to a better place: life IS the better place, right here and now. It's too good to be true - and it's real.

Frank Schaeffer

#43. Fey ... a Scotch word ... It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know
it's too good to be true.

Agatha Christie

#44. It was too good to be true, too sweet to be reality for too long, so when someone set out to destroy his belief in her, it made more sense to doubt her than to believe that she had truly loved him in the first place.

Amy Harmon

#45. Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.

Willy Ronis

#46. It's become important so quickly. Maybe too quickly. I keep thinking it's too good to be true.

Sylvia Day

#47. I never thought I would be doing something with television. It changes just in the fact that you walk outside and watch your step and not trust too willingly. Other than that I have stayed true to myself, kept my old friends, and the whole good deal.

Whitney Port

#48. When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

Malcolm Turnbull

#49. There was always a slug on the lettuce.
This was too good to be true.
He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David.
He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet.
Being carful had kept him alive this far.
There was no reason to stop being careful now.

Charlie Higson

#50. It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

Sarah Dessen

#51. An arena where, so Merewalh's priest told me, Christians had been fed to wild beasts. Some things are just too good to be true and so I was not sure I believed him.

Bernard Cornwell

#52. Sure, Lena gets the credit for being the most powerful Caster of all time. Whatever. It doesn't make me any less excellent. Neither does her too-good-to-be-true Mortal boyfriend, Ethan "the Wayward" Wate, who defeats Darkness in the name of true love every day of the week.

Kami Garcia

#53. Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

Jim Dodge

#54. They say that even of a good thing you can have too much. But I doubt it. True, such good things as sunbathing, beer, and tobacco may be intemperately pursued to the detriment of their devotees; yet, to my mind, one cannot have too much of a good murder.

William Roughead

#55. It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Matthew Henry

#56. All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

Alice Hegan Rice

#57. I'd learned that when something sounded too good to be true, it almost always was.

Anonymous

#58. How many men are stupid enough to dump two Emerson girls?" Dad asked. "Too bad we're not mobbed up. We could have his body dumped in the Farmington River.

Kristan Higgins

#59. I studied the smile, couldn't decide if it looked sincere or rehearsed. And that thought troubled me. I was good at reading people and their intentions, but only if I wasn't too invested. Once invested, I couldn't separate what I wished to be true from what was actually true.

Penny Reid

#60. It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.

Blake Mycoskie

#61. When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.

Criss Jami

#62. The idea that there is an unconditional love that relieves the pressure, forgives our failures, and replaces our fear with faith seems too good to be true.

Preston Sprinkle

#63. The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

Rob Bell

#64. Nothing is ever too good to be true.

Michael Faraday

#65. What the denouncer of dogma really means is not that dogma is bad; but rather that dogma is too good to be true. That

G.K. Chesterton

#66. The prospect of being able to work on a Kaufman film with him directing was just too good to be true.

Elijah Wood

#67. The basis of any scam is telling people what they want to hear. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Lee Child

#68. Adrian sighed. I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.

Richelle Mead

#69. Sometimes thing are too good to be true.

Theodora

#70. God never made a promise that was too good to be true.

D.L. Moody

#71. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Holly Black

#72. Be true to the game, because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game, then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort, good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game, and in some ways that's about life too.

Michael Jordan

#73. Readers are also not impressed by characters who have so many talents, skills, charm and good looks that they sound annoyingly too good to be true.

Charles Christian

#74. [D]on't cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go ... Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

Stephen Levine

#75. The old adage, 'If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is' isn't always correct. In fact, the suspicion, cynicism, and doubt that are inherent in this belief can and does keep people from taking advantage of excellent opportunities.

Richard Carlson

#76. This man, who had been through so much hardship, was not just generous; he was too good to be true. He put me first. He was concerned for my well-being.

M. Clarke

#77. I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story collections as collections. That's not true of all story collections, to be honest, but for good ones I think it often is true.

Brian Evenson

#78. The best part is it's a dream come true. I've always wanted to be a working actor, and the good part of it ... it's all good! I work long hours, but it's amazing. They pay me. That's amazing! I get to kiss Keri Russell, and that ain't too bad.

Scott Foley

#79. The sun now radiated all around me and the magnificent palace that lay before me glittered invitingly. Which reminded me of another one of Mother's sayings: if something appears too good to be true, it probably is.

Jessie Harrell

#80. The true is the name of whatever proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, too, for definite, assignable reasons.

William James

#81. At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.

Frankie Valli

#82. So as one sin of Adam brought the punishment of death to all people, so too one good act that Christ did makes all people right with God, bringing them true life . One man disobeyed God, and many became sinners. In the same way, one man obeyed God, and many will be made right.

Saint Paul The Apostle

#83. We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible" things that are too good to be true.

Carroll Eugene Simcox