“I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Ella Enchanted
“I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Simple people(who,incidentally,run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very,very ignorant and really don't know anything.
"Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
“If you look for the bad in mankind expecting to find it, you surely will.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
This is attributed to Lincoln in the 1960 film adaptation of Pollyanna. In reality, it was fabricated by screenwriter and director David Swift, who had to have thousands of lockets bearing the false inscription recalled after Disney began selling them at Disneyland.
Misattributed
“I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you."”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
The Distinguished Annie Clark Tanner Lecture, 16th-annual Families Alive Conference, Weber State University, May 8, 1997 - Full text online at weber.edu http://departments.weber.edu/chfam/familiesalive/angelouspeech.html3 <br class="br">Context: I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me "I love you." … There is an African saying which is: "Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
“You think you know how this story is going to end, but you don't. Trust me, I was there. I know.”
Christopher Moore book Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
Biff, in Ch. 1
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal (2002)
Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me
Evelyn Collier, Chapter 15, p. 223
Source: 2009, The Best of Me (2011)