Quotes About Trust

You did not, I trust, persuade your eminent friend to forsake his bower in favour of these noisome marshes? That would indeed be a case of the punishment being born at the same time as the sin.

If you're coming with me, listen,' said Lymond. He ducked, and then swung a punch that did not quite go wide. 'And then knock me out cold.' 'With pleasure,' said Jerott. His dark eyes were bleak. 'And if I succeed?' 'You won't,' Lymond said.

Do you like Magda too?" His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. "She seems pleasant enough when she's not drugged. But then she nearly always is, isn't she?" He

19I particularly urge you to pray so that I may be restored to you soon.

People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart

I like to crawl away and hide in a corner. Well, he said, with a transitory gleam of himself, you're my corner and I've come to hide.

I took the liberty of ascertaining as much beforehand, my lord. Of course you did, Bunter. You always ascertain everything.

Even if it is the twilight of the world, before night falls I will sleep in your arms.' . . .

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child? demanded Miss Haydock. Well, Eve -- it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.

I have rather an unwholesome weakness for policemen.

Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.

A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence.

though I always think that the franker you are with people, the more you're likely to deceive 'em; so unused is the modern world to the open hand and the guileless heart, what?

honestly--then dishonestly.

It's a curious thing, but people cannot resist anonymous letters. It's like free sample offers. They appeal to all one's lower instincts.

It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there.

Exactly. He is the Most Unlikely Person, and that is why Sherlock Holmes would suspect him at once.

of my own honesty.

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe.

Friends come and go but I wouldn't have thought you'd be one of them

L'amour c'est comme du mercure dans la main. Garde-là ouverte, il te restera dans la paume ; resserre ton étreinte, il te filera entre les doigts.

By the time you swear you're his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite,undying-Lady,make a note of this: One of you is lying