Quotes About Distrust

Honor among thieves, perhaps. Honor among spies, never.

In a curious twist, I realize I always knew TV news seemed full of shit, but I never knew it was, in fact, full of shit.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

What do you take me for, an idiot

It was a maxim with Foxey—our revered father, gentlemen—"Always suspect everybody."

He had used the word [humbug] in its Pickwickian sense.

The devoutest person could have rendered no greater homage to the efficacy of an honest prayer than he did in this distrust of his wife. It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.

The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the horses; as to which cattle he could with a clear conscience have taken his oath on the two Testaments that they were not fit for the journey.

Don't believe that,' said Fagin. 'When a man's his own enemy, it's only because he's too much his own friend.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

He was gobbling mincemeat, meatbone, bread, cheese, and pork pie, all at once: staring distrustfully while he did so at the mist all round us, and often stopping—even stopping his jaws—to listen. Some real or fancied sound, some clink upon the river or breathing of beast upon the marsh, now gave him a start, and he said, suddenly,—

The Dover mail was in its usual genial position that the guard suspected the passengers, the passengers suspected one another and the guard, they all suspected everybody else, and the coachman was sure of nothing but the

Mr. Dennis received this part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch.

took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellow-tradesman whom he stopped in

Her reverting to this tone, as if our association were forced upon us and we were mere puppets, gave me pain; but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it, and build no hope on it; and yet I went on against trust and against hope. Why repeat it a thousand times? So it always was.

Blameless as I was, and knew that I was, in reference to any wrong she could possibly suspect me of, I shrunk before her strange eyes, quite unable to endure their hungry lustre.

David Copperfield from head to foot! Calls a house a rookery when there's not a rook near it, and takes the birds on trust, because he sees the nests!

He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.

As he bowed to me in that tight state, I almost believed I saw creases come into the whites of his eyes.

...it slays love quicker than any other one thing... Indeed, the jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. By their suspicions the jealous materialize the very thing they most dread...

Pessimists — Moral squinters, who, being incapable of a straightforward view, imagine that penetration is evinced by universal suspicion and mistrust.

A political convention is just not a place from which you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

God did not give wings to scorpions.

Always be wary of people who use quotes. I don't know who said that.' - Murdoc Niccals