Quotes About Suspicion

What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister?" "Something furtive," Aunt Alexandra said. "You may count on that." "Nobody has much chance to be furtive in Maycomb," Atticus answered.

It was not always like this, I swear it wasn't. People used to trust each other for some reason, I've forgotten why. They didn't watch each other like hawks then.

Can'ttrustpeople. Won'tdoanygood. They'llkillyoueverytime. They'llkilleachother. They'llkilleveryone.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

The image of her in another man's arms was stuck in my mind, as real as life. As if there was a demon with nowhere else to go clinging to a corner of the ceiling, eyes fastened on me.

John was grinning in his shifty way, the way men smile at each other when one has a hatchet and the other doesn't.

When we need a policeman, God bless 'em, they're there. But, if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, everything seems suspicious.

The Patriot Act unleashed the FBI to search your email, travel and credit records without even a suspicion of wrongdoing.

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

We should always be suspicious when machine-learning systems are described as free from bias if it's been trained on human-generated data. Our biases are built into that training data.

The problem is if Russia is organising exercises - and not being transparent about what exactly these exercises are about - it creates suspicions as to their objectives.

I turns arounds slowly, knowing if I turn too quick they gon' gun me down.

It could not be that a free citizen of New-York, who had wronged no man, nor violated any law, should be dealt with thus inhumanly. The more I contemplated my situation, however, the more I became confirmed in my suspicions. It was a desolate thought, indeed. I felt there was no trust or mercy in unfeeling man; and commending myself to the God of the oppressed, bowed my head upon my fettered hands, and wept most bitterly.

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

Poirot suspected Hugo Dockerill was one of the stupidest people he had ever met.

How sorry he was if anything he'd done had created the impression that he might be a killer.

Once while we were watching the denouement scene of a David Suchet Poirot episode, he [my husband] said irritably, 'Why do they all just sit there and let Poirot accuse them of stuff? I'd get up and walk out.

Poirot smiled. "You think that I waste time on trivialities, mademoiselle? Non. These little details, apparently unconnected to the two killings, are vital to know. They are the little key that will open the heavy door.

Wszyscy chc? naszego dobra.Nie dajmy go sobie zabra?!

Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion.

Nada despierta más la inteligencia que una sospecha apasionada, nada desarrolla más las facultades de una mente inmadura que un rastro que huye hacia la oscuridad

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.