"Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves."
― Rebecca West
Topic(s):
Trust
More From Rebecca West
- "There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
- "A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere."
- "Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts."
More In Trust
- "I always market research my books before I hand them in by showing them to five or six close friends who I trust to be honest with me, so they are very heavily re-written already."― Helen Fielding
- "As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children’s feelings, but I’m making up for that now. I’m winning my children’s trust back."― Maurice Gibb
- "I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely."― F. Murray Abraham