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Quotes About Suspicion

Where do you think this guy is leading us?' 'Probably somewhere to murder and kill us.' 'Yeah, at least one of those.
~ Christopher Moore
Wait. Henri, you said that Carmen didn't remember you, but she wasn't unkind to you, right? She didn't seem to be trying to hide from you? Perhaps she was an unwilling participant in the Colorman's scheme. Perhaps she loved you deeply and he made her forget. Perhaps Juliette, too, is being manipulated against her will. Perhaps, said Lautrec absentmindedly. but she is too beautiful, I think, to not be inherently evil.
~ Christopher Moore
The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ...
~ Christopher Paolini
A tingle passed through him. Saphira-- I know , she said, her excitement rising. The eggs! Eragon smiled. Eggs! Dragon eggs! As a race, they would not pass into the void. They would survive, and flourish, and return to their former glory, as they had been before the fall of the Riders. Then a horrible suspicion occurred to him. Did you make us forget anything else? he asked Umaroth. If we did, how would we know? replied the white dragon.
~ Christopher Paolini
Was she always that friendly? I joke. She saw Robert. At least I got that out of her. Maybe she buried him in the backyard. Stop. Did you smell it in there? Yes. That wasn't a normal smell. That wasn't the sort of something's-gone-bad-in-the-garbage smell. That was the sort of Dahmer-next-door smell. Stop it. I'm serious, I say. It's probably just some dead animal. Oh, well, in that case, it's fine.
~ Travis Thrasher
I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion - which I could see he always harbored - that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment.
~ Umberto Eco
I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.
~ Umberto Eco
Yo sospecho, sospecho siempre.
~ Umberto Eco
No está mal. Ya estamos en el umbral en el que sospechamos que algo no funciona, pero es necesario un esfuerzo para demostrar qué es lo que no cuadra y por qué. El estúpido es muy insidioso. Al imbécil se le reconoce enseguida (y al cretino ni qué decir), mientras que el estúpido razona casi como uno, sólo que con una desviación infinitesimal.
~ Umberto Eco
If you accuse a man of murder, you might be believed, but if you accuse him of eating children for lunch and dinner like Gilles de Rais, no one will take you seriously.
~ Umberto Eco
Kas tai yra meil?? Nieko n?ra pasaulyje, nei žmogaus, nei velnio, nei kito dalyko, kuris man atrodyt? toks pat ?tartinas, kaip meil?, nes ji ?silaužia ? siel? giliau nei kas kitas, ir n?ra nieko kito, kas taip pripildyt? ir supan?iot? šird?, kaip meil?. Tod?l per meil? siela nugarma ? giliausius pragarus, nebent jei turi ginkl?, kuriais gali jai atsispirti.
~ Umberto Eco
Ce e dragostea? Nu exist? nimic pe lume, nici om, nici diavol ÅŸi nici alt lucru pe care eu s? nu-l socotesc atât de suspect ca dragostea, întrucât aceasta p?trunde în suflet mi mult decât orice altceva. Nu exist? nimic care s? acapareze ÅŸi s? lege sufletul ca dragostea. Întrucât, dac? nu ai acele arme care s-o st?pâneasc?, sufletul cade din pricina dragostei într-o ruin? nem?rginit?.
~ Umberto Eco
Los detallistas son unos paranoicos en su primer estadio.
~ Umberto Eco
Gli Adepti del Velame ricordano qualcuno che sentendosi dire: Signore, lei è un ladro, mi creda!, reagisca con: Che cosa intende con 'mi creda'? Vuol forse insinuare che io sia diffidente?
~ Umberto Eco
but they know that's all bait for suckers, and if you could hear them laughing at you behind your back, you'd realize how you're being used.
~ Upton Sinclair
It is the nature of despotism all over the world that no man can trust any other, or be sure of the meaning of any spoken word.
~ Upton Sinclair
I told her you were probably here'. 'Thanks,' Tony said. 'Did I mention she thinks her brother's murder is my fault?
~ Val McDermid
injuries were consistent with murder rather than accident.
~ Val McDermid
One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.
~ Victor Hugo
This Boulatruelle was a man in bad odour with the people of the neighbourhood; he was too respectful, too humble, prompt to doff his cap to everybody; he always trembled and smiled in the presence of the gendarmes, was probably in secret connection with robber-bands, said the gossips, and suspected of lying in wait in the hedge corners at nightfall. He had nothing in his favour except that he was a drunkard.
~ Victor Hugo
Basta guardare certe persone per diffidarne; si intuisce che sono anime nere, inquieti dietro, minacciosi davanti.
~ Victor Hugo
Your boy has ruined my daughter, Tony. She's expecting." Elsa saw the way Mrs. Martinelli's face changed at that, how the look in her eyes went from kind to suspicious. An appraising, judging look in which Elsa was condemned as either a liar or a loose woman or both
~ Kristin Hannah
on a cough, but of course there was
~ Kristin Hannah
I'm very wary of trust, you see.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas