Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.

He said that he was sure you would be amendable to this course of action." April paused, eyes widening, before she said indignantly, "I believe he may have lied to me!

Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy." "How odd. I think quite the same of you.

Which means she to deceive, father or mother?

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

Don't trust women, my mother said to me. Even the ugly ones will take what you thought was yours.

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

You can't trust very many people.

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

Treat your friends as if they were going to be your enemies one day.

A close friend can become a close enemy.

I won't budge; I will act like a hedgehog and wait until they come to talk to me. I will yield nothing. We will see if they can manage without me. Lloyd George is a trickster…. I don't like being double-crossed. Lloyd George has deceived me. He made me the finest promises, and now he breaks them.

Whoever said “Keep your enemies close” didn’t have many enemies.

That had been a real problem for me in the past - meeting people that were opportunists, so I had a few bad experiences where I really believed people cared about me, but they didn't.

Arbeloa said he was my friend, but I don't consider him my friend - maybe someone I know, but not my friend.

People tell all sorts of lies in order to live. That enables friendships to form and love to blossom.

There are very few people who I can trust. I look at those people and say, Why do you keep coming back?

In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could hear, she said, "I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

These palm trees like my old homeboys, hella shady

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.