Quotes About Reliability

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath.

Then one day there really was a wolf, but when the boy shouted they didn't believe him.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.

No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't tell a soul.' 'People who use that phrase are always the last to live up to it.

Your not reliable. You wouldn't be at all a comfortable sort of person to live with.

You don't appreciate a faithful husband when you've got one,' said Tommy. 'All my friends tell me you never know with husbands,' said Tuppance. 'You have the wrong kind of friends,' said Tommy.

He, of course, is a liar, but that doesn't really matter because, if you know liars are liars, it comes to the same thing.

Men have courage-one knows that...but they are more easily deceived than women.

Women were all the same. They promised to burn things and then didn't.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you.

You will not give away a lady's secret?

But the newspapers, they are so inaccurate, I never go by what they say.

The intelligent people on whose intelligence she could rely were all far too busy. Not only had they all got jobs of varying importance, their leisure hours were usually apportioned long beforehand. The unintelligent who had time on their hands were simply, Miss Marple decided, no good.

People who go about talking of what they are going to do don't usually do that.

You've heard the truth and you can take it or leave it as far as I am concerned.

Mr Satterthwaite clucked twice in vexation. Whether right in his assumption or not, he was more and more convinced that cars nowadays broke down far more frequently than they used to do.

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

Come find me," Leo put in, his gaze full of understanding. "Whenever you want. I'll be here.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

A perception that exists in the mind is often interpreted as a universal truth.

I'm absolutely certain." Say something enough and it not only sounds true, it becomes memory.