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Quotes About Distrust

I am alone in the world and I don't believe in anyone, everyone lies, sometimes even when making love, I don't think one being speaks to another, the truth only comes to me when I'm alone.
~ Clarice Lispector
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
~ Claude M. Bristol
But he was a stranger and we tend to believe whatever we first hear about strangers.
~ Clifford Irving
Lies corrode like rust.
~ Clifford Thurlow
You can never trust a spy. Even your own.
~ Clifford Thurlow
My friends, there are no friends.
~ Coco Chanel
Nigga couldn't tell the truth if there was a gun to his head.
~ Unknown
Los perros, de cierto, ladran a quien no conocen
~ Heraclitus
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
~ Hermann Hesse
I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.
~ Herodotus
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
~ Herodotus
In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.
~ Herta Muller
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
~ Hesiod
All I know for sure right now is that my sister gave me a small fraction of the truth." "I don't want to sound like a cynical lawyer," he said. "But I think that's all anybody ever gives anyone.
~ Unknown
They claim they're living the vita apostolica; but you didn't find the apostles feeling each other's bollocks.
~ Hilary Mantel
They have never had a harsh word till today, he thinks, and perhaps what has passed is less harsh than sad: that a son can think evil of his father as if he is a stranger and you cannot tell what he might do; as if he is a traveller on the road, who might bless your journey and cheer you on, or equally rob you and roll you in a ditch.
~ Hilary Mantel
but will also assuage the fears of the king, who distrusts novelty, and German novelty above all.
~ Hilary Mantel
was proud of what he did. He thought if you let the people read God's word for themselves, Christendom would fall apart. There would be no more government, no more justice.' 'He believed this? Truly?' 'That we needed the constraint of ignorance? Yes.' 'He did not give much credit to his fellow man.
~ Hilary Mantel
distrusted the permanent snare for his temporary opinions.
~ Hilary Mantel
Never feel bad when your friends are becoming your enemies They're just tired of pretending
~ Unknown
Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.
~ Holly Black
She looks honestly upset, but then, I've learned that I can't read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they're always lying.
~ Holly Black
This is absurd. This is awful. This isn't how people show loyalty. This is epic, epic bullshit.
~ Holly Black
I don't lie," I lied.
~ Holly Black