G. Oliver Koppell Quotes

Secrecy necessarily breeds suspicion.

Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?

I have been a conspirator for so long that I mistrust all around me.

Keep an eye on him who enters announcing that what he asks is secret

Richard Nixon never trusted anybody.

People don't trust anything anymore. We don't trust our government. We don't trust our automobile makers. We don't trust our pharmaceutical houses. We don't trust our doctors or our hospitals or our cops. We don't trust Congress. And a lot of Americans don't trust the president of the U.S. So the media are simply regarded as another piece of the American establishment. People think we're trying to get away with something, trying to pull the wool over their eyes, trying to push an agenda..

That's the thing about conspiracy theories: in a comforting sort of way, they give rise to the feeling that someone, somewhere, knows what's going on.

Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools

Hatred and dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived.

Somebody is always hiding something.

There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

He that once deceives is ever suspected.

one tends to suspect others of what one is guilty of oneself. The unfaithful wife is quick to suspect the husband of infidelity.

The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

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.

In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let me warn you: that is not what will prevent me from deceiving you, if I want to. On the contrary.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.

Just because we don't understand why they'd cover up something doesn't mean they aren't," Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him. "Now you just sound paranoid," I said. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you," Bobby said with an expression so serious that I couldn't help but laugh.

A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.

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

What would you think if I told you that I wasn’t an Allomancer?” Sazed asked. “I’d think that you were lying,” Vin said. “Have you known me to lie before?” “The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.