Quotes About Distrust

I can't stand lying. I can't stand liars.

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

I don't like magic.

Well, that should do it," the man replied. "Oh, and I did put a small camera in your office, just to square things up. It's hidden, so you won't have to worry about somebody spotting it.

At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a [Catholic], and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both." Within

It's a funny thing, Jan went on, she's not a child, she's not stupid, but her relationship with other people tends to be very naïve; she believes that everyone is honest and kind. Punia knows that there are bad people around her, too, she recognizes them from a distance. But she really can't believe that they may hurt

When honor dies—when trust is a useless thing—what use is life?

Can't you just keep your big mouth shut? Brian said furiously to Nan. He pointed to Chrestomanci. How do we know he's safe? For all we know, he could be the devil that you summoned up! Oh, you flatter me, Brian, Chrestomanci said.

A promise to a liar means nothing!

It is the nature and pleasure of townspeople to distrust the city. All the guiding principles that might flow from a center of ideas and cultural energies are regarded as corrupt, one or another kind of pornography. This is how it is with towns.

I know it's thankless to be sensible in the face of someone's primitive distrust.

The thing that hovers over every secret is betrayal.

All of us...still believe that the American flag betokens a kind of general righteousness. But I say...that signs are signs and some of them are lies.

The harshest people I've met over the years have had two things in common: they don't fully trust anybody, and they view relationships as a means to an end.

Stalin had always found Gorky unreliable; he had crossed swords with him in 1917, calling his protests "geese cackling in intellectual marshes

Patta's expression seemed cordial enough, though from past experience Brunetti knew this was meaningless: vipers liked to bask on rocks in the sunshine, did they not?

was he trapped in a nest of vipers able to worm themselves into people's sympathies? Was he another one?

If criminals can't believe in an illegal deal with the police, what can they believe in?

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

Z: "You know, this was a hell of a lot easier when you were out cold in the back of that truck." Phury: "That was you?" Z:"You think it was Santa Claus or some shit?

Never trust the French.

When truth is replaced by a lie, the truth is a lie." ? Jack Cohen

If there's one thing I've learned in my short and unhappy life it's never to expect anything and to be particularly suspicious of that which is apparently served up on a plate.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.