... once you’ve told Nanny Ogg you’d more or less told everyone else. (W)
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DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. (TT)
'Don't trust the cannibal just 'cos he's usin' a knife and fork.' (CJ)
'Make them think. Tell them what's got to be done, and let them work out how.' (N)
Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants. (GO)
It'd be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went around trusting one another. (GO)
People who would not believe a High Priest if he said the sky was blue, and was able to produce signed affidavits to this effect from his white-haired old mother and three Vestal virgins, would trust just about anything whispered darkly behind their hand by a complete stranger in a pub. (Ma)
'I'm unreliable! I'm a cat! I wouldn't trust me, and I am me!' (AM)
Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something. (P)
Nowhere outside a trades union conference fraternal benefit night can so much mutual distrust and suspicion be found as among a gathering of senior enchanters. (LF)
Every scientific statement is provisional. Politicians hate this. How can anyone trust scientists? If new evidence comes along, they change their minds. (JD)
'… there are times when promises should be kept and times when promises should be broken, and it takes a Feegle to know the difference.' (ISWM)
… a wizard could trust you because of the hellish future he could unleash on you if his trust was betrayed. (UA)
'You’re at home with the writin’ and readin’,’ grumbled Jackrum. ‘You can’t trust the people who do that stuff. They mess around with the world, and it turns out everything you know is wrong.' (MR)
A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them. (ER)
Twoflower was a tourist, the first of the species to evolve on the Disc, and fundamental to his very existence was the rock-hard belief that nothing bad could really happen to him because he was not involved; he also believed that anyone could understand anything he said provided he spoke loudly and slowly, that people were basically trustworthy, and that anything could be sorted out among men of goodwill if they just acted sensibly.
On the face of it this gave him a survival value marginally less than, say, a soap herring, but to Rincewind’s amazement it all seemed to work and the little man’s total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away. (LF) She had the slightly wistful, slightly hungry look that so many women of a certain age wore when they’d decided to trust in gods because of the absolute impossibility of continuing to trust in men. (MM)
'Goodness me, I can’t go around letting people believe I’ve been wrong all along, can I? The Abbots have been denying there is anything Outside for generations. I can’t suddenly say they were all wrong. People would think I've gone mad.’
‘Would they?’ said Masklin. ‘Oh, yes. Politics, you see.' (Truck) Colon in particular had great difficulty with the idea that you went on investigating after someone had confessed. It outraged his training and experience. You got a confession and there it ended. You didn’t go around disbelieving people. You disbelieved people only when they said they were innocent. Only guilty people were trustworthy. (FC)
'I wouldn’t trust me if I was you. But I would if I was me.' (GP)
'I like a man I can’t trust. You know where you stand with an untrustworthy man. It’s the ones you ain’t never sure about who give you grief.' (LH)
No wonder this man was a diplomat. You couldn’t trust him an inch, he thought in loops, and you couldn’t help liking
him despite it. (J) 'I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts,’said Brutha. ‘That way, everyone’s happy.' (SG)
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