Quotes About Distrust

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Enemies' promises were made to be broken.

Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.

They that know how to suspect, without exposing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much.

Then one day there really was a wolf, but when the boy shouted they didn't believe him.

The boy cried "Wolf, wolf!" and the villagers came out to help him.

Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.

When you find that people are not telling you the truth---look out!

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.

One of us in this very room is in fact the murderer.

There is nothing so terrible as to live in an atmosphere of suspicion - to see eyes watching you and the love in them changing to fear - nothing so terrible as to suspect those near and dear to you - It is poisonous - a miasma.

always bear in mind that the person who speaks may be lying

No," said Miss Marple. "You believed what he said. It really is very dangerous to believe people. I never have for years.

But I always find it prudent to suspect everybody just a little. What I say is, you really never know, do you?

He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn't really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

It's very dangerous to believe people, I haven't for years.

Loyalty it is a pestilential thing in crime. Again and again it obscures the truth.

If thing is as clear as daylight, mistrust it! someone has made it so!

The police, they're seemingly so frank, and they tell you nothing.

Edward turned to Miss Marple. "It's like this, you see. As Uncle Mathew grew older, he got more and more suspicious. He didn't trust anybody." "Very wise of him," said Miss Marple. "The depravity of human nature is unbelievable.

He had false teeth that clicked when he ate. Many men have been hated for less.

It's so difficult, isn't it, to get to know people when there is a murder? And quite impossible to have any really intellectual conversation.