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Quotes About Trust

He picked up his friend, who was so weak that he began to cry. "Maurice – I'm a fool." "Be a fool," said Maurice, and carried him upstairs, undressed him, and put him to bed.
~ E.M. Forster
Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love.
~ E.M. Forster
You all right, Maurice?' – for he had sighed. 'You comfortable? Rest your head on me more, the way you like more … that's it more, and Don't You Worry. You're With Me. Don't Worry.
~ E.M. Forster
Como é que tu achas que é o mundo das pessoas crescidas? -Não sei dizer. Sou um rapa- disse, com muita sinceridade. São muito traiçoeiras, sir? ---- Mr. Darcie (professor) e Maurice P.13, Maurice, E.M. Forster, Livros Cotovia, tradução de Jorge Ayres Roza de Oliveira P.13, Maurice
~ E.M. Forster
Como é que tu achas que é o mundo das pessoas crescidas? -Não sei dizer. Sou um rapaz - disse, com muita sinceridade. - São muito traiçoeiras, sir? -------------~ Mr. Ducie (professor) e Maurice p.13, MAURICE - E.M. FORSTER, Livros Cotovia, 1989, esgotado, tradução: Jorge Ayres Roza de Oliveira
~ E.M. Forster
I have shared with Alec,' he said after deep thought. 'Shared what?' 'All I have. Which includes my body.
~ E.M. Forster
I'm thankful it's into your hands I fell.
~ E.M. Forster
she wasn't convinced that love is necessary to a successful union. If love is everything, few marriages would survive the honeymoon.
~ E.M. Forster
You can't fight Medusa with anything else. If you ask me what the Spirit of Life is, or to what it is attached, I can't tell you. I only tell you, watch for it. Myself I've found it in books. Some people find it out of doors or in each other. Never mind. It's the same spirit, and I trust myself to know it anywhere, and to use it rightly.
~ E.M. Forster
She mistrusted the periods of quiet that are essential to true growth. Desiring to book Mrs. Wilcox as a friend, she pressed on the ceremony, pencil, as it were, in hand, pressing the more because the rest of the family were away, and the opportunity seemed favourable.
~ E.M. Forster
We have morals and behaviour also, and I don't think this continual secrecy improves them.
~ E.M. Forster
The betrayal I now felt was greater because it had been perpetrated with the greatest of charm and courtesy.
~ E.R. Braithwaite
Nah,' I tell her after a while. 'He is more like a brother, you know?' The good kind. The kind with the purple teeth.
~ E.R. Frank
That settles it. I'm your man." "You mean it?" "Yes--for to-night.
~ E.W. Hornung
I'm on for any mortal thing!' My voice rang true, I swear, but it was the way of Raffles to take the evidence of as many senses as possible. I felt the cold steel of his eyes through mine and through my brain. But what he saw seemed to satisfy him no less than what he heard, for his hand found my hand, and pressed it with a fervour foreign to the man. 'I know you are, and I knew you would be. Only remember, Bunny, it's my turn next to pay the shot!
~ E.W. Hornung
No man's credit is as good as his money.
~ E.W. Howe
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
~ E.W. Howe
To avoid mistakes and regrets, always consult your wife before engaging in a flirtation.
~ E.W. Howe
Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
~ E.W. Howe
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
~ E.W. Howe
Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.
~ E.W. Howe
God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.
~ Eamon de Valera
He turned to Miss Minerva. "I'm relying on you, at any rate. You've got a good mind. Anybody can see that." "Thank you," she said. "As good as a man's," he added. "Oh, now you've spoiled it!
~ Earl Derr Biggers
I didn't know where it would lead. I wanted things to develop naturally.
~ Earl Lovelace