Veronica Roth Quotes

I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Never trust a man who doesn't like Elvis.

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

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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

For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.

Believe flatterers and you're lost; believe your enemies and you despair.

Oh, Cena. You must think that I was born yesterday.

He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out of a bunch of steel, and it would give him something to think about before we start asking questions.” “That’s an awful thing to do to one of the Little Folk, man,” I said. “I’m planning to start making a pie in front of him.” “Nice.” “Thank you.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.

Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee.

The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

Never trust a man who can dance.