Eudora Welty Quotes

Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

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

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.

Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled.

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.

Some people have more sense than other people think they have.

You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.

It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

You can never be sure of anyone until you're close enough to see them clearly.

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.

To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself."

I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

Never trust a man who can dance.

We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.

There is none deceived but he that trusts.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

Man seems to be an animal whose capacity for lies is only equalled by his credulity; it does no good to let battalions of cats outof bags, to produce whole harems of naked facts, people eat the same three meals daily deception, and are always ready to turn with fury upon the purveyors of bagless cats and facts undraped. Probably their instinct is wise. Who knows?