Quotes About Suspicion

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Coward! Liar! Libertine! Who were you with last night? Moll at the mill or Violet at the vicarage? Or Ivy, perhaps, at the ironmongery?

Really, Joe? Really? You freaking think so?

There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman.

But just one gram of suspicion weighs heavier than a kilo of truth!

The truth is that things were already going so poorly for me that nothing surprised me anymore. But then the BKA sent 20 agents to search my house.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

But you don't have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.""You don't have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn't always out to get you.

If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.

luck was really stubbornness married to a knack for observation, a fluid sense of the truth, a sharp ear for lies, and a deeply suspicious nature. They'd

A bitter, disappointed, and jealous man kills the man he believes to be his wife's lover, this you consider to be unlikely. A murderous Nazi spy with orders to abduct a parrot, on the other hand—

bullshit sniffer set as ever to a brutally low ppm.

I have always had the suspicion that officers assigned to front desk duty were chosen by cunning supervisors because of their skills in obfuscation and disinformation.

Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?

It was the Holy Grail of detective work. It had nothing to do with evidence or legal procedure or probable cause. It was just knowing it in your gut. Nothing in her life beat it.

habérmela contado a mí primero, porque esto podría hacerte sonar como una especie de chiflado vengativo.

After my sister's death twenty years before, something in them changed toward me. It seemed that I, as the survivor of the accident, was suspect for having done just that. Survived. I am also sure that since that time I have continued to disappoint them in the choices I have made. I think of these as small disappointments accruing over time like interest in a bank account until it was enough for them to comfortably retire on.

There's a black leather glove under the case. I don't know if it's a match but it is a glove." Bosch got down on his hands and knees so he could look underneath the display case. He reached under and pulled out the glove. "Looks the same," he said. "If it does not fit, you must acquit," said Edgar. Bosch looked at him. "Johnnie Cochran

he knew why, just as he knew that George Irving's death would have been written off as a suicide with Crate