Quotes About Suspicion

Wonder, fear, discovery, suspicion, hesitation, fascination, curiosity—all were crammed into his little eyes...

stopped. Well, he'd been stopped. And the king had been deprived of his most loyal supporter, was suspected of having

Terstan. Who? Who would do such a thing? He will kill him, Abramm. Just

How am I to get back to my room dressed like this? He grinned at her, his teeth flashing whitely in the dim light from the fire. You'll leave a trail of water. Which the servants will report to your sister.

So he's harmless, then." "I wouldn't say that, exactly." "No?" "I would n't slip up behind him with a knife, for he might retaliate." Michael shrugged. "But that's to be expected. He kills only when necessary." Mary covered her face with her hands and moaned.

It kept Mom on high alert and I worried sometimes that their marriage had become the sort Inspector Javert might have had with Jean Valjean.

Will always assumed that when people insisted they weren't lying about a particular thing, that meant they were lying about something else.

Granted Laura spent most of her time on Nextdoor but that was because people who lived year-round in beach towns were either busybodies, lunatics, and/or possible serial killers.

Callie would never understand how Bill Gates had been shortsighted enough to give everybody easy access to the internet so that some day, these jackasses could reveal all of his dastardly plans.

She would never feel another man's touch without wondering whether or not she could really trust him.

conversation. He'd felt his gut clench at Emma's

Carver is a charming man with a soft voice that makes you believe he is always confiding in you. He is courteous and attentive, which I wonder about, because is this his natural disposition, or has he read too many novels about Hannibal Lecter?

Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn't on?" This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from a Raymond Chandler novel.

But at the entrance to science, as at the entrance to hell, the demand must be posted: 'Qui si convien lasciare ogni sospetto; Ogni vilta convien che qui sia morta.' Here all suspicion needs must be abandoned, ?All cowardice must needs be here extinct

The plot thickens," he said, and wished he hadn't said that because it sounded like something from a bad detective novel. "I think we have a suspect." That didn't sound much better. "My house has just exploded, by the way." At least that was novel.

When a man induces his wife to turn suspicious thoughts against her own father, then that is surely cause enough for resentment.

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.

A man guilty of poverty easily believes himself suspected.

O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!