Quotes About Distrust

When Luke and I are called outside, and you two are kept imprisoned inside - doesn't it begin to seem - and his voice is very quiet - doesn't it begin to seem that the intention is, somehow, to separate us?

It has enchained and destroyed its people and their lives, it is a place of contained ill will.

Mrs. Spencer distrusted letters on principle, because they always seemed to want to entangle her in so many small, disagreeable obligations--visits, or news of old friends she had conveniently forgotten, or family responsibilities that always had to be met quickly and without enjoyment.

Fancy was a liar. She had been with Aunt Fanny and dared not admit to running away. She had not been frightened, but she enjoyed teasing people weaker than herself. Not a servant, or an animal, or any child in the village near the house, would willingly go near her.

He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

Não quebro muitas vezes a cabeça a propósito da questão do bem e do mal, mas, em média, descobri muito pouco «bem» entre os homens. Segundo o que deles sei, são na maioria escumalha, quer se reclamem da ética desta ou daquela doutrina, quer de nenhuma.

We thus combine unreasonable optimism about what people might be like, with unreasonable hatred of them when they are not like that (pp269)

For he has found that even his senses deceive him, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once. He puts to himself the objection that only madmen (who say that they are dressed in purple when they are naked, or that their heads are made of earthenware, or that they are pumpkins or made of glass -- madmen were evidently pretty colorful in the seventeenth century) deny the very obvious evidence of their senses.

Arapski geograf El Bekri, govore?i o Slovenima, kaže: Ako se oženi i vidi da je njegova žena nevina, on joj kaže: Da si nešto vredela, muškarci bi te voleli i našao bi se jedan koji bi ti oduzeo nevinost. Zatim je otera i odri?e je se.

Oh God. I'm losing it. Everyone knows this is how criminals get caught. They add too many details and trip themselves up.

This is the last time I ever get a private detective off the internet.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

What greater wound is there than a false friend?

There are two ways to be fooled. One is too believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.

I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

That is the problem with our world. Nobody trusts anybody. We are just waiting for somebody to save us.

I know a lie when I hear one.

Trust is hard to gain, but it is even harder to regain once lost.

Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say.

She doesn't trust easily, but when she does it's always with the devil himself.

You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.