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Quotes About Distrust

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.
~ Joss Whedon
He may be friendly, but he's not your friend.
~ Joy James
La falta de fe en los hombres, el mezquino instinto que los impulsaba a buscar garantías, aun en la caridad.
~ Juan Carlos Onetti
Dos pasos hacia delante revelan el rostro de Sandra, sonriente. Una cara que inspira la misma confianza que la cena de una rata. —Inspector —saluda ella. —Loca del coño —saluda él. —Sería bueno que se guardara el arma. —Tú primero, tesoro.
~ Juan Gómez-Jurado
Un traidor es un traidor... Un botón es siempre un botón —sentenció.
~ Juan Sasturain
Nunca he participado de una empresa exitosa, por eso no soy leal. Por lo menos con los empresarios...
~ Juan Sasturain
But then she often felt like this lately. The world seemed full of transparent frauds that only she could see through. She was forever shouting from the hustings of honesty, though if any honesty were directed at her she ran from it horrified. And she knew it, laughed at herself for it, wretchedly. She was all to pieces.
~ Jude Morgan
I should say no more. Because when we dislike someone we are always very ready to believe any ill of them
~ Jude Morgan
but it was almost repellent to distrust this courtly old man. Like kicking one of those white-whiskered, stately dogs that spend their days sunning themselves, but still feel obliged to creak to their feet to greet a newcomer.
~ Judith Flanders
Because it has always been easier to believe himself capable of evil than to accept evil in others.
~ Judith Guest
You had no right." Oh, yes, he did. He suggested, "Why don't you write that down. Put it in my handwriting. Perhaps I'll chance to read it, think I wrote it: Maybe then I'll believe you.
~ Judith Ivory
I mistrust mountebanks—especially of the female variety.
~ Judith Merkle Riley
When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.
~ Judith Viorst
Yes?" "When you said you weren't angry..." "Yes?" "Were you?" "I was rather annoyed," he admitted. "But not angry?" She sounded as if she didn't believe him. "Believe me, Henry, when I get angry, you'll know." "What happens?" His eyes clouded over slightly before he answered. "You don't want to know." She believed him.
~ Julia Quinn
Tarryton did so, but not before saying, "I wouldn't be surprised if Billington came up to scratch on this gel." "Billington, Farnsworth, and a few others," Alex said with his most affable smile. "Ashbourne?" Dunford's voice was colder than ice. "Dunford?" "Shut up.
~ Julia Quinn
I'm sure you're already aware that you should never trust a gentleman who says you can trust him.
~ Julia Quinn
How in the hell am I supposed to watch my back if I have no idea what I'm watching for?
~ Julia Quinn
Gregory knew a thing or two about women, the most important of which was that it was always a good idea to befriend the friend, provided they really were friends, and not just that odd thing women did where they pretended to be friends and were actually just waiting for the perfect moment to knife each other in the ribs.
~ Julia Quinn
She looked at him in askance.
~ Julia Quinn
Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.
~ Jacques Delors
As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
~ Nick Cave
Many people are insecure of many people.
~ Kangana Ranaut
I think we've now gotten to this point where we're growing more and more distrustful of our institutions, be they government or corporations or otherwise.
~ Rick Famuyiwa
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
~ George Bernard Shaw