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Quotes About Trust

My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
~ Oscar Wilde
Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.
~ Oscar Wilde
I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
~ Oscar Wilde
Never trust a woman who wears mauve.
~ Oscar Wilde
I never change. MRS. CHEVELEY: (elevating her eyebrows) Then life has taught you nothing? LADY CHILTERN: It has taught me that a person who has once been guilty of a dishonest and dishonorable action may be guilty of it a second time, and should be shunned. MRS. CHEVELEY: Whould that rule apply to everyone? LADY CHILTERN: Yes, to everyone, without exception. MRS. CHEVELEY: Then I am sorry for you, Gertrude, very sorry for you.
~ Oscar Wilde
For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts
~ Oscar Wilde
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
~ Oscar Wilde
Thou knowest all; I seek in vain What lands to till or sow with seed - The land is black with briar and weed, Nor cares for falling tears or rain. Thou knowest all; I sit and wait With blinded eyes and hands that fail, Till the last lifting of the veil And the first opening of the gate. Thou knowest all; I cannot see. I trust I shall not live in vain, I know that we shall meet again In some divine eternity.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest.
~ Oscar Wilde
He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.
~ Oscar Wilde
For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.
~ Oscar Wilde
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the only thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
~ Oscar Wilde
There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world.
~ Oscar Wilde
Yes Harry I believe that is true. I cannot help telling you things. You have a curious influence over me. If I ever did a crime I would come and confess it to you. You would understand me.
~ Oscar Wilde
You don't seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none.
~ Oscar Wilde
You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. I never know where my wife is, and my wife never knows what I am doing. When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke's—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.
~ Oscar Wilde
Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
~ Oscar Wilde
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
~ Oscar Wilde
I have said to you that to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
~ Oscar Wilde
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognise them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.
~ Oscar Wilde
The world is cruel, give me thy heart to take with me.
~ Oscar Wilde
Please, tell me the truth. The truth, who knows the truth? You've heart knows the truth.
~ Oscar Wilde
To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements.  They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
~ Oscar Wilde