Quotes About Suspicion

These strongly Aristotelian attitudes, which still dominate many societies today, reflected a suspicion of the middleman. They were thought to make money not by adding intrinsic value to the traded item, but by moving goods or money to areas of shortage, or even, many believed, by creating the shortage in the first place.

Our distrust is very expensive.

The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

This morning I put ground glass in my wife's pancakes.

Desde que empezó la guerra, las sospechas han hecho más daño que las balas.

Many whites who were suspected of loyalties to the British were hounded, tarred and feathered, sent into exile—but they were not hanged on the mere suspicion of what they might do in the future. Something else was going on here, something with a distinctly racial twist. Jeremiah personified the worst fears of white patriots: what if black men, acting as their own agents, sided against them?

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.

Black cats. They kill me every time. I can just feel it when I see one. The only thing that gets me is black cats.

In 'Big Brother,' it's hard to really trust anybody because 99 per cent of the time, that person is going behind your back.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.

I think there are a lot of circumstances that surround the Clinton family that aren't explainable, and I will let people go on and research it for themselves. And if they think there is something fishy going on, leave it to them.

So much water so close to home.

It could have been a beautiful friendship," Beifus said with a sigh. "Except for the ice pick, of course.

I lit a cigarette and dragged a smoking stand beside the chair. The minutes went by on tiptoe, with their fingers to their lips. I looked the place over. You can't tell anything about an outfit like that. They might be making millions, and they might have the sheriff in the back room, with his chair tilted against the safe.

I suppose you do this to all the clients," she said softly.

Whoever had done it had meant business. Dead men are heavier than broken hearts.

It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.

The thin man had a tight voice that expected to be lied to. (The King in Yellow)

He looked at the corner of the ceiling with an absent stare. I looked at him with a not so absent stare. He looked like a man who could be trusted with a secret—if it was his own secret.

You can't tell anything by my voice. I'm a detective. Heard from him how?

him." I said: "Nerts! You seem to forget I know why Lou was killed." Beasley sat up in his chair and moved his right hand

You're as cold-blooded a beast as I ever met, Marlowe. Or can I call you Phil?" "Sure." "You can call me Vivian." "Thanks, Mrs. Regan." "Oh, go to hell, Marlowe." She went on out and didn't look back.

He stared at me and his left hand began to edge towards the gun. He belonged to the Wandering Hand Society. The girls would have had a time with him.