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Quotes About Suspicion

Villains don't have friends, and neither do their children. Not when you get right down to it.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Excuse me? she sent. What's this all about? She looked around suspiciously, but the library was full of Auradon students diligently working on their Virtues and Values term papers on computer terminals or else absorbed in their Kindness and Decency reading. This week's assignment was Snow White's How to Keep a Happy Home for a Family of Seven (Dwarfs Optional).
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I'm watching you, Josh," she said. "So are the police. You can't hide anymore. You're going to have to keep looking over your shoulder, wherever you go now, because they will come for you soon, and when they do, I will be there to watch.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
I'M NOT buying it, Daniel.
~ Melissa Scott
It is hard to believe a man when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
~ Mencken, H.L
Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Come on! You must have at least suspected there was someone else, he said. Couldn't you smell her on his pants?
~ Merrill Markoe
When the politics of greed become a cultural norm, all acts of charity are wrongly seen as suspect and are represented as a gesture of the weak.
~ bell hooks
Those feminist activists who refuse to accept men as comrades in struggle — who harbor irrational fears that if men benefit in any way from feminist politics women lose — have misguidedly helped the public view feminism with suspicion and disdain.
~ bell hooks
Billy ha il sospetto che i suoi connazionali in segreto la sappiano ben più lunga, ma nel paese si è creata una fissazione per il melodramma adolescenziale, per le più teatrali rappresentazioni di innocenza stuprata e i confortanti fanghi termali della pietà autoassolutoria.
~ Ben Fountain
It was in that old Yellow Front building past the corp yard. The one they're tearing down now for The Store. It's been empty for a long time, but some lady reported seeing teenagers breaking in. So I went over to check it out." There was a brief pause. "The shadows were in there.
~ Bentley Little
The rules were simple: trust no one, be ever watchful and if trouble came hit first and hit hard. It had worked for him so far.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I have reservations about everything I do.
~ Larry David
As a kid, I was a Hitchcock lover; I cared about the dark side of things.
~ Teller
The first time Kyuss was about to get signed, they're like, 'We'd like to sign you!' and we just said, 'No! Forget it!' because we thought people were always trying to invade everything.
~ Josh Homme
perspicaciousness into question. He'd say you wanted to see a .45 Glock in the man's hand
~ Stuart Woods
It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.
~ Sue Grafton
Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right—a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five.
~ Sue Grafton
It's hard to have faith in your fellow man when you're forced to look at some of his handiwork.
~ Sue Grafton
I suspected, though, she was simply mean.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
He [Caligula] also refused to examine a report supposedly concerning his own safety, on the ground that nobody could have any reason to hate him
~ Suetonius
LI QUAN If they ply you with expensive gifts and sweet talk, they are up to something.
~ Sun Tzu
His father's general mistrust of the future carried through to his thoughts on women. Like success, women would inevitably turn on you someday. He had a suspicion of women that bordered on paranoia. His son internalized these views as well.
~ Susan Forward
You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.
~ Susanna Clarke