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Quotes About Suspicion

When they arrived in Rochester, Buell and his companion proceeded straight to the Powers Hotel, where they informed the house detective of their suspicions.
~ Harold Schechter
In Georgia to suspect was to believe, and the only hand you could really trust was that of your enemy because you knew it held a dagger.
~ Harrison E. Salisbury
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
~ Harry S. Truman
There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck".
~ Harry Stack Sullivan
Why, Mrs. Michaelson, just what are you afraid of? Me?
~ Heather Graham
When it comes to anything suspicious—safe is better than sorry.
~ Heather Graham
we all have a tendency to mistrust each other, to be suspicious of what we don't understand.
~ Heather Graham
When I saw my charmer thus come in accompanied by a cavalier, I seemed to hear a hiss, and the green snake of jealousy, rising on undulating coils from the moonlit balcony, glided within my waistcoat, and ate its way in two minutes to my heart's core.
~ Heather Vogel Frederick
Nadie está intentando matarme con engaños».
~ Lawrence Freedman
Do not trust the Horse, Trojans/ Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. —Laocoön in Virgil's Aeneid
~ Lawrence Freedman
Lawrence Sanders
~ dissembling.
Survival ... is an infinite capacity for suspicion.
~ le carre john iii
Diggs lubricated her skepticism with diplomacy.
~ Leah Hager Cohen
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.
~ Learned Hand
You sound very confident, Teddy," Duncan said. "Is that because you tossed the rape kit or altered the case number so it would never be found?
~ Lee Goldberg
not that anyone was actually keeping one.
~ Lee Goldberg
I'm not going to do that," she said. "With my luck, the deputy that comes will be one of the assholes who did this or, at the very least, someone who sympathizes with them.
~ Lee Goldberg
Nowhere in the world is safe," Count Olaf said. Not with you around," Violet agreed. I'm no worse than anyone else," Count Olaf said.
~ Lemony Snicket
Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.
~ Lemony Snicket
Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.
~ Lemony Snicket
The siblings wished that if Mr. Poe were really jealous of them he would attend Prufrock Preparatory School himself, and they could work at the bank.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is always interesting to observe what people are wearing in the middle of the night, although there are more pleasant ways to make such observations without being accused of murder.
~ Lemony Snicket
Most field trips contain sinister plots.
~ Lemony Snicket
Look!" Mr. Poe said, who was still too far to help but close enough to see. "Genghis has an eye tattoo, like Count Olaf! In fact, I think he IS Count Olaf!" "Of course he is!" Violet cried, holding up the unraveled turban. "Merd!" Sunny shrieked, holding up a tiny piece of shoelace. She meant something like "That's what we've been trying to tell you.
~ Lemony Snicket