Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
Malcolm Cowley

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.
Frank Langella

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Lord Chesterfield

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
Benjamin Franklin

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas

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.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.
Susan B. Anthony

I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
Edward Dmytryk

I distrust anything that you don't hear.
Leo Ornstein

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
Joe E. Lewis

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
E. M. Forster

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
Margaret J. Wheatley

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone

Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.
Douglas Hurd

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
Henry A. Wallace

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
James Russell Lowell

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