Nicholas Sparks Quotes

Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

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.

Cynicism has its own zealots.

I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you

Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

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

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

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

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

I have a big cynical side to me.

Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.

It is important not to trust people too much.

There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

I don't trust nobody, especially when they say something good.

Men will not receive the truth from their enemies, and it is seldom offered to them by their friends.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. In the highest confidence there is always a flavor of doubt--a feeling, half instinctive and half logical, that, after all, the scoundrel may have something up his sleeve.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.