distrust quotes

'We stay together, but we distrust each other.' 'Ah, yes,†but isn't that a definition of marriage?'

- Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
  The History Man, ch.3.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink too much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

- (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett
  The Maltese Falcon,'The Fat Man'.

I am for encouraging the progress of science in all its branches; and notfor†awing thehumanmind bystories of raw-head and bloody bones to a distrust of its own vision and to repose implicitly on that of others.

-Thomas Jefferson
  Letter, 26  Jan.

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defence against betrayal.

-TennesseeThomas Lanier Williams
  Marguerite. Camino Real, block10.