Quotes About Distrust

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was a gross insult.

A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.

Don't trust anyone over thirty," the 1960s radicals cried. "Don't trust anyone under three hundred," came Thomas Oden's wise reply.

For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.

I have no desire for others to take it on themselves to analyze my thoughts. I am without thoughts. I have never, not even once, acted on the basis of any doctrine or philosophy.I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world.

I am convinced that those people whom the world considers good and respects are all liars and fakes. I do not trust the world. My only ally is the tagged dissolute. The tagged dissolute. That is the only cross on which I wish to be crucified. Though ten thousand people criticize me, I can throw in their teeth my challenge: Are you not all the more dangerous for being without tags?

I was cursed by the unhappy peculiarity that the more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them - a process which eventually compelled me to run away from everybody.

I have suffered much at the hands of human society. Forgive me if I seem overly suspicious.

The more I feared people the more I was liked, and the more I was liked the more I feared them.

What the tanuki doesn't realize is that people who affect to believe all our nonsense often harbor evil and insidious plots in their hearts

To deceive someone who trusts you is to enter a hell that can take you to the brink of madness.

Nos relacionábamos despreciándonos mutuamente y volviéndonos cada vez más triviales; si esto es lo que el mundo llama «amistad», entonces no hay duda de que eramos amigos.

There is no insufferable, painful hell like that of deceiving people all the time.

you didn't know enough to distrust others

My wife can sniff out a lie from six thousand miles away. And I'm the world's worst liar, anyway.

The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.

Si en este país hay un sospechoso, es la policía. LUIS GONZÁLEZ DE ALBA

Todo el mal que puede desplegarse en el mundo se esconde en un nido de traidores». FRANCESCO PETRARCA

Belascoarán se llevó la mano a la bolsa y sacó una paleta de caramelo rellena de chicle. Lo mismo podía haber sacado su pistola, el tipo no le inspiraba la más mínima simpatía.

What kinda family she come from? There was something about her I don't like. It seems funny, the first time you meet her she comes to your empty house alone. These college girls, they all one step from the streets. (MARTY turns, gowning, to his mother) MARTY What are you talkin' about? She's a nice girl. THE MOTHER I don't like her. MARTY You don't like her? You only met her for two minutes.

You can only trust yourself... and barely that.