Quotes About Distrust

You can't trust anyone you have to pay, and really, they can't trust you.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

One of the things cops learn first is that everyone lies. Some people to hide things, some people just for the hell of it, but everyone lies. Assume that everyone is hiding something, it saves time.

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.

For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.

When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

Was it still paranoia if all his fears were justified?

The magic will not solve your problems. It will only add to them. The magic will not make people like you. It will increase their distrust. The magic will not ease your pain. It will twist and burn inside you until sometimes you think that even death would be preferable. -Antimodes, Soulforge

For the love of all that is holy, just give me a straight-up, stand-up sword fight! I hate court intrigue and all the closet-hiding, eavesdropping, secret-liaisoning, lying, and manipulating, who's-watching-who-watching-who bastards that bow and scrape and simper as they slip arsenic into your claret. You can't tell your friends from your enemies from one day to the next. —Stephano De Guichen

Outre qu'il est fatigant d'écouter debout dans la foule un long morceau d'éloquence, entendre tonner contre les ennemis du régime n'est pas un pur plaisir quand on tient soi-même de plus près qu'on ne voudrait aux suspects et aux condamnés.

Look, she sighed. You might be a lovely lad, in fairness you look like a lovely lad, but I can't take the chance. My kids wouldn't even be able to remember what I was wearing to tell the police. And all the recent photographs of me are bad, very jowly. I couldn't have them stuck to the lamp posts around the city. On your way, son. (Woman to Matt, when he tried to give her a lift.)

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

She used to ask herself, What more could I wish? But she always distrusted that question, because she knew there were limits to her experience that precluded her knowing what there was to be wished.

She kept saying, My husband will be back soon. He went for help. He'll be back. But that's the kind of lie people tell sometimes when they got only strangers to rely on. There's shame in that, so people lie.

But della Rovere frowned and said, Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church.

Why couldn't he get a straight answer from any of them? Because this was Sicily, he thought. Sicilians had a horror of truth.

Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.

Michael grinned. "Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.