Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

You can't trust very many people.

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people.

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

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

As of right now, I have two votes, mine and Jimmy's. I'm sure of Jimmy because he said he is gonna vote for me and Jimmy never tells a lie.

Disown me as a Muslim if I deceive you.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

My husband knows who I am. My friends, my family - they know I would never lie.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Can’t promise I’ll stay. That would be lying. And I’m so, so tired of lies.

You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.

My husband may have his faults, but he has never lied to me.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

A man without trust is a man without life.

If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

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.

True liars never love. True lovers never lie.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.

Don't ever break someone's trust. Once you do, then nobody wants to do business with you.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.