Quotes About Distrust

If you're used to people being shitty, it's hard to accept niceness. Your instinct is to fuck it up. And run the hell away.

I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand. Since trust isn't an option, you don't have to get all freaked out about maybe having to trust him.

The whole entire world. There is no law. There is no right and wrong. The world is lies. There is no friendship. Every fucking thing. Every God-forsaken thing.

Para hacer buenos negocios solo hay que tener buen ojo, dinero y falta de fe en la inteligencia humana.

Snakelike butt-coverers, the whole lot of them.

That's the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves

In this world only the paranoid survive.

I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs.

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable.

It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician—but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

He's one of those people, thought Howard, who looks like one quality very much, and the quality in this case is 'noble'. Howard didn't much trust people like that, so full of one quality, like books with insistent covers.

If this was cynical, then we must allow that all courtship is cynical.

Audrey nodded warily. She had never cared for conspiratorial female conversation of this sort. Its assumption of shared preoccupations was usually unfounded in her experience, its intimacies almost always the trapdoor to some subterranean hostility.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout just what they hope done happened.

No woman has ever come up to me and said that my husband was having an affair with her.

I have no faith in the justice system so I don't let anything affect me.

I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.

The argument can be made: Maybe you want to trust the government, but you shouldn't because you don't know where things are going to go in the future.

What, child, your husband shuts himself into a room with naked women! And you are so simple as to believe that he draws them?

We have within us an inward power of sight, an eye of the soul which foresees catastrophes; and the repugnance that comes over us against the fateful being is the result of that foresight. Though religion orders us to conquer it, distrust remains, and its voice is forever heard.

That cursed ball! All the world thinks I am worth millions. Yet Lourdois had a look that was not natural; there's a snake in the grass somewhere.