Quotes About Suspicion

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

I don't know man, I didn't do it.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

All men naturally hate one another. I hold it a fact, that if men knew exactly what one says of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

To some men popularity is always suspicious. Enjoying none themselves, they are prone to suspect the validity of those attainments which command it.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.