Quotes About Trust

The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.

An excuse is worse than a lie, for an excuse is a lie, guarded.

At every word a reputation dies.

Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense! If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day; Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend—and ev'ry foe.

What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good humour still whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul

Pride where wit fails steps in to our defense, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of every friend—and every foe.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her; but mainly a woman hates a man for being her friend.

But whom to love? To trust and treasure? Who won't betray us in the end? And who'll be kind enough to measure Our words and deeds as we intend?

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

I realize that I am expressing a concept that is hard for anyone who is not Sicilian or a mafioso to grasp...A man of honor...must always tell the truth.

Let us conduct ourselves in such a fashion that all nations wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Why did you deceive me?" "Would you have listened to me if I had told you the truth straightaway? I did not have time to convince you. It was necessary to distort the truth for the sake of plausibility. Without this transitional stage you would

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

Because of all the kinds of love there are out there—romantic, passionate, parental, spousal, brotherly—the love that is touted as most unassailable, complicit, and colluding is the love between sisters.