Distrustful Quotes

Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!

I am very distrustful of collectivist ideologies of any kind

A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?

Call me paranoid. I´m frequently right.

I can't help but be a little more gun-shy and wary about people.

I'm a very jaded and cynical person.

I'm a cynical idealist.

I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.