Edmund Burke Quotes

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.

Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

It is important not to trust people too much.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing.

We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Until he gives you a reason not to trust him, behave as though you trust him.

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.

The reason I trust so much is that I don't feel like I have anything to hide. If somebody betrays that trust, it could never be so bad, because I don't keep any secrets.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.

Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust.