Veronica Roth Quotes

I am sort of pessimistic in that way where I often think the worst of people.

It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.

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.

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.

Cynicism and defensiveness are two things constantly levelled at me. Look, I've got time for people, I'm good mannered. I usually find that when you're down, nobody has a bloody minute for you. If I was a nobody, you wouldn't even talk to me. People, in general, don't like you being upfront and civil. They hate you for it. They label you a cynic 'cos you're reasonable.

I hated labels anyway. People didn't fit in slots--prostitute, housewife, saint--like sorting the mail. We were so mutable, fluid with fear and desire, ideals and angles, changeable as water.

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.

Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

The real question is should we trust people who don't like cheese?

As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to ensure the survival of their genes. I don't think they will want to see themselves as digital computers either. To be told by someone with impeccable scientific credentials that they are nothing of the kind can only be pleasing.

You know, you’re a little complicated after all.” “Oh no,” she assured him hastily. “No, I’m not really - I’m just a - I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

These days I don't know who really likes me. I always assume most people are bullshitting me.

Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.

You know, people are basically shitty. It's when they prove it over and over again that it gets obnoxious.

When was it that people decided as a society that your body is in one place and your sexuality in another place, something like a hat, or a coat, that when you leave home you hang it and when you come back home you say, "Ah! Let's wear my sexuality! I might wear it tonight"? It is something that belongs to your body.

I'm not paranoid,I just don't trust people.

If I now recognize evil in other people, is it not because I have become evil too?

Am I reserved? I think I agree with that. I don't think I'm particularly original. I am quite homey, though. But then I'm also quite transient. I quite like being nomadic.

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

If Chester had a failing, it was that he believed people were what they thought they were.

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.