Quotes About Distrust

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Take from a man his reputation for probity, and the more shrewd and clever he is, the more hated and mistrusted he becomes.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

The truthful man is usually a liar.

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

Beware of men bearing flowers.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.

A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.

Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.