Quotes About Distrust

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Homo homini lupus

My point,' I said, 'is that there's hell in every handshake, never mind an outright and humiliating insult.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

All this is nothing better than the jargon of a conjuror, who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Priests and conjurors are of the same trade .

She had decided that the women wouldn't be wearing overly conservative, modest clothes. If a woman was up to no good, she would want to look like the majority.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Paranoids are not paranoid because they're paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.

I'd become quite a master prevaricator.

Now I'd believe Osama bin Laden over you, Devon.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

I have no respect for acting where I'm concerned.

I couldn't imagine that I'd ever see men as normal people and I could never trust them. I couldn't bear any human connection with men.

North Korean defectors can usually tell when other defectors are lying about their past.

I'm not interested in 'lovey dovey,' everything is so great in the world. That doesn't interest me at all.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.

I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.

He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.

The logic of idolatry is ultimately self-and world-defeating, because the idolatrous impulse is born out of a deep distrust in God's love and care and a denial of the sacred character of the world. People embark on an idolatrous path when they believe that God's gifts are not sufficient or God's care is misdirected.

Todos têm seu dia de Judas.