Distrust Quotes

Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

Mutual ignorance breeds mutual distrust.

When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them.

Distrust unsolicited advice.

But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

I distrust anything that you don't hear.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'.

Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in.

Silence is the best tactic for he who distrusts himself.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.