Distrust Quote by J. R. R. Tolkien Download Open image “A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship.” — J. R. R. Tolkien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distrust Distrust Longs Doubt Friendship Hunted Hunted Man Men Sometimes Wearies Distrust
As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
If the detective should suffer overmuch from the artistic temperament, and his fellow lodger should dwell overlong upon the fairness of a wrist or… — Loren D. Estleman Copy Share Image
The proud and arrogant man is surrounded by enemies, but the kind hearted man attracts valuable friends. — Ore Abayomi Copy Share Image
A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship. — Clarence H. Burns Copy Share Image
“The Shy Hunter is terrified that others will destroy the truth within his heart, Rose said, And so the Shy Hunter armours himself ...… — Tom Spanbauer Copy Share Image
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Too late we learn, a man must hold his friend Unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end. — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Never trust a man whom you know to have acted like a scoundrel to others, whatever friendliness he may profess to feel towards yourself,… — Charlie Day Copy Share Image
Though most of the friendships of the world ill deserve the name of friendships; yet a man may make use of them on occasion,… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt,… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a complicated story you must work to a map; otherwise you'll never make a map of it afterwards. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust… — I. A. Richards Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Excessive distrust is not less hurtfJul than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
On one thing, at least, men & women both agree: They both distrust women. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots.… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image