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Quotes About Distrust

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I'm not looking for anything. I think all men are dogs, I honestly do. Every man starts barking sooner or later.
~ Octavia St. Laurent
A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.
~ John Gay
A fearful man is always hearing things.
~ Sophocles
Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.
~ Taylor Caldwell
The unmerciful man is most certainly an unblessed man. His sympathies are all dried up; he is afflicted with a chronic jaundice, and lives timidly and darkly in a little, narrow rat-hole of distrust.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good, you should run for your life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
~ Henry Fielding
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
~ Herodotus
The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.
~ Karl Mannheim
You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.
~ Malcolm X
Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.
~ Ken Follett
When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.
~ Ernestine Rose
No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.
~ H. L. Mencken
It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.
~ Mark Twain
Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
~ Nachman of Breslov
As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.
~ Plato
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
~ E. M. Forster
Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
~ Albert Einstein
Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Men are more prone to cheating, definitely.
~ Blu Cantrell
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
~ James Gould Cozzens
Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!
~ John Gay
Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton