Quotes About Distrust

Nadie está intentando matarme con engaños».

Survival ... is an infinite capacity for suspicion.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

Beware of the man to whom you have done a good turn.

You sound very confident, Teddy," Duncan said. "Is that because you tossed the rape kit or altered the case number so it would never be found?

not that anyone was actually keeping one.

men were ruined and families were destroyed by Ronin. She's the only person in the department I don't trust to have my back. Nobody does.

I'm not going to do that," she said. "With my luck, the deputy that comes will be one of the assholes who did this or, at the very least, someone who sympathizes with them.

They had no confidence in themselves and even less in their own kind.

Oh, we all are, my young friend! We all deceive. Some of us deceive the whole world, every single fellow creature we meet. Some of us deceive only selected people, wives and lovers, or mothers and fathers. And some of us deceive only ourselves. But none of us is totally honest with everyone all the time, in all matters. Hell, the need to deceive is just one more curse that our sorry species has to bear.

It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.

Olaf: Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else

He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

I'm afraid that's the wicked way of the world. Everything's covered in smoke and mirrors.

By 'aha' she means 'one minute' Stephano claims he knows nothing about snakes, the next he claims he is an expert! By 'aha' she means 'Stephano has been lying to us'. By 'aha' she means 'we've finally exposed his dishonesty to you'! By 'aha' she means 'aha'!

Si conocieseis al Conde Olaf y éste de repente os sirviese el desayuno, ¿no temeríais que contuviese algo terrible, como veneno o cristal hecho añicos?

Colette picked up a piece of the bread and stared at it suspiciously. "This toast feels raw," she said. "Is it safe to eat raw toast?" "Of course not," Hugo said. "I bet that baby is trying to poison us." "Actually

Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.

Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?

If I had learnt nothing else from my study of the methods of the three great men sitting near me, I had learnt this, that they would eventually pick out the one person I had not suspected. So I followed the simple plan of suspecting everyone. I was determined not to be surprised.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

I could see the two sides hardening, their feelings intensifying, as both began to think the other not just wrong, but hideous, venal... in league with the devil himself.