Quotes About Distrust

She acts like she don't like you She doesn't like anyone She likes Capitan Black, Orr reminded. That's because he treats her like dirt. Anyone can get a girl that way

Yossarian attended the education sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him.

He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right-wing friends to his Communist enemies, and he was thoroughly detested by both groups, who never defended him to anyone because they thought he was a dope.

The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and that includes Colonel Cathcart. And don't you forget that, because the longer you remember it, the longer you might live.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.

the platitudes of Americanism were horseshit. Number one, they didn't work. Number two, they weren't true. Number three, the people giving voice to them didn't believe them either.

You disappoint other people. You cause people to wonder if you ever tell the truth. You cause people to stop trusting you.

Why you can't trust women. Even young girls. Can't know what the fuck they are thinking, can't know what they are feeling, can't know how they will surprise you except to know it won't be a surprise you will like.

People who have no capacity to trust suspect the motives of others. I know this is true because I had a real problem in this area. Even when other people told me they loved me, I was always waiting for them to hurt me, disappoint me, fail me, or abuse me. I figured that they must be after something; otherwise, they would not be nice to me. I just could not believe that anyone would want me just for myself. There had to be some other reason!

Never trust anyone. You are always alone, and betrayal is inevitable.

Lovely, Nellie whispered. A double-crosser wouldn't spend all this time gardening and planting flowers, would they? ... Sinead Starling opened the door. Ah, Nellie said. I guess I was wrong.

I think, Nick snarled, that the stupid bastard isn't smart enough to win a poker hand with a deck of marked cards.

If you aren't a living example of 'the devil quoting scripture.'

this two-way hatred. I don't understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?

Actually he never expected much of people, and so he wasn't upset if they turned out to be shysters or chiselers or crooks. But a few people he trusted absolutely. It was when they betrayed him that he turned to rock.

Good fortune, contentment, peace, happiness have never been able to deceive me for long. I expected the worst, and I was right. So much for the dream of man.

No Eden valid without serpent.

It's the little deceptions that no one catches that are going to dissolve it all someday. We'll look at clocks and we won't believe the hands. They'll forecast sun but we'll pack our slickers anyway.

Verlass dich nie auf die Ehrhaftigkeit eines anderen!

never trust a Troglotroll

But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.

but you can feel awful guilty about nothing when the men you're with don't trust you.

There were two kinds of people Grandpa didn't trust, a preacher and a cop. He'd say "They both think they're sanctified in everything they do.

More than all other people, we are afraid of each other.