Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Distrust
Usurpator diffida
Di tutti sempre.
A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
Alfieri—Polinice. III. 2.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George Eliot—Middlemarch. Bk. V. Ch. XLIV.
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure,
Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly.
Samuel Johnson—Irene. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 87.
A certain amount of distrust is wholesome, but not so much of others as of ourselves; neither vanity nor conceit can exist in the same atmosphere with it.
Madame Necker.
Three things a wise man will not trust,
The wind, the sunshine of an April day,
And woman’s plighted faith.
Southey—Madoc in Azthan. Pt. XXIII. L. 51.