Quotes About Trust

Whatever you say, old boy. Just look after yourself. And whatever you do, don't swallow the gum!

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.

You weren't in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

You know the mistake I made tonight ? It was believing in you. Well, Mr James Bond 007, whatever you were is gone. It belongs to another time. There are no more heroes any more.

Robert Pinkerton used to say that a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells. - Frederick Chase

From Pünd's experience, people who were so insistent on the truth were very rarely telling it.

a lie was like a dead coyote. The longer you leave it, the more it smells.

Somehow, she was always there when you needed her. The trouble was, she was also there when you didn't.

Why would I believe someone who spends his entire life making stuff up?

But in the space of one minute he had told Colin Matheson more than he had ever told me. I had never known his age, for example. And I had written that he had spent ten years as a detective, not eleven. Why was Hawthorne answering these questions so readily in front of an audience in an Alderney cinema when with me he'd always been so guarded about his private life?

He saved my life. In a way, I loved him. I love you too, Alex. You are so very much like him. I'm glad that you're here with me now.

When people keep secrets, those secrets have a nasty way of festering. They can turn into poison. They can kill.

Will you believe me if I say that no matter how bad things may appear, they will be better tomorrow if you allow tomorrow to do its work?

But such gossip cannot be confronted. Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth.

Rumours and malicious gossip are like bindweed. They cannot be cut back, even with the sword of truth.

We had managed to drift into that awful arena, so familiar to the long-term married couple, where what was left unspoken was actually more damaging than what was said.

He sounded almost too genuine to be genuine.

What?' I couldn't believe what he had just said. 'She's faking being blind?' It was one of the most disgusting things I'd ever heard.

At the moment, there's just the four of us who know that your wife is a cold-hearted, manipulative bitch. Maybe it would be a good idea to keep it that way. What do you think?

being published. But I'd known Alan Conway for eleven years, or I thought I had, and I found it almost impossible to believe that he could have produced this, all four hundred and twenty pages of it. It was as if he was whispering to me as I lay there in the darkness, telling me something I didn't want to hear.