Distrust Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

13 Distrust Quotes
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“The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.”
Frank Herbert Quotes
“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
“A usurper always distrusts the whole world. [It., Usurpator diffida Di tutti sempre.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes
Source: Polinice (III, 2)
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes
Source: Middlemarch (bk. V, ch. XLIV)
“When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: Irene (act IV, sc. 1, l. 87)
“A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity not conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes
Source: Irene (act IV, sc. 1, l. 87)
“Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith.”
Robert Southey Quotes
Source: Madoc in Azthan (pt. XXIII, l. 51)
“The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them.”
Camillo Di Cavour Quotes
“The feeling of mistrust is always the last which a great mind acquires.”
Jean Baptiste Racine Quotes
“Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.”
John Churton Collins Quotes
“On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.”
H. L. Mencken Quotes
“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
George Eliot Quotes
“The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.”
Franz Boas Quotes