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Quotes About Trust

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... it is always the men we won't allow to make love to us, who take our characters away.
~ Ellen Buckingham Mathews
My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."
~ Ellen Goodman
I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself.
~ Emily Levine
Never reveal your insecurities to a man, because nine times out of 10 they have no idea they even exist.
~ Emmanuelle Chriqui
Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
~ Epictetus
Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.
~ Erica Jong
The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
~ Ernest Hemingway
they reminded me of the biggest liar I ever knew personally. Was a farmer, too. Reputation of pretty good farmer at that, but he lied so he had to hire another man to call his pigs.
~ Esther Forbes
I know the most terrible thing that can happen to a woman. That is the gang-up. Men put you to sleep with their drops and one man after another goes in and takes you.
~ Ethel Waters
Nothing happens to man without the permission of God.
~ Euripides
Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
How it saddens me to see how quickly men turn against each other.
~ F.E. Higgins
Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.
~ Ferdinand Lundberg
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
~ Francis Bacon
Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God
~ Francis Bacon
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
~ Francis Bacon
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.
~ Francois Rabelais
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
~ Francois Rabelais
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky