David Thewlis Quotes

I wouldn't believe him if he said the sun came up in the east.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

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

I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.

Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

I'm a natural-born trust-buster.

I don't trust people who are likable.

You feel everybody has your best interests in mind, but you come to find out that's not necessarily the case.

I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.

My colleague Ross Douthat wrote that any time you give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt, he always lets you down.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

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

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

You just let people do what they do and look at them and give them enough rope until they do what you thought they were going to do... which is screw you over.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

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.

I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

The more someone assures you that everything is okay, the more you can be assured that it's not.

Psyche you out?" I repeat. "I'm your FRIEND. I wouldn't do that." He doesn't say anything. I can tell he doesn't believe me-not quite.

He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.

It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time.

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

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.