Quotes About Suspicion

Rarely was Richelieu accused of leniency. In his hubris, he was alleged to have said, "Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, and I will find something there to hang him."14

During the Sixties, we also became a culture of splinter-groups, of people who identified ourselves according to ethnicity, gender, special interests—a galaxy of minorities, united only by a sensibility that now regarded society at large with suspicion.

Donald Trump = 9/11 cover-up conspirator.

IF* the existence of sin could be disproved or brought under suspicion, this would be a powerful argument against Christ's mediation. -- David King, 'The Lord's Supper

I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect

They certainly won't think she's been taken over by the devil. If anything, they're suspicious that the devil's taken a day off.

In a Town like Twin Peaks noone is innocent

Like most seasoned phonies, I roundly suspect that everyone is as disingenuous as I am.

That man tried to picka my frienda's pocketoni!

Snakelike butt-coverers, the whole lot of them.

At the end of the interrogation, Moustakas said, Kelley was escorted out of CIA headquarters by a senior counterintelligence officer, who also took his badge. He was placed on administrative leave that was to last twenty-one months. In limbo, falsely accused as a spy and facing a possible death penalty, Kelley, having served his country for thirty-seven years, had nowhere to turn. He could only wait, and hope that he would eventually be cleared of the crime he knew he had not committed.

In this world only the paranoid survive.

Listen, child—if you're at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he'll be the last one you'd suspect.

There were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity; and those who, having not been loved, learned to thrive on hatred, suspicion, and the meager rewards of revenge.

There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold.

I noticed how those who know the truth are always treated with suspicion and disdain. That was the case with Jesus, of course. But look at old Miss Marple. Always she knows, and everyone is surprised that she does. And the same with Hercule Poirot. How can that ridiculous little man know anything? But he does, he does. It is the triumph of the meek, in Agatha Christie as in the Gospels.

yet she did not miss the poisoned honey of some tongues or the expressive glances of many eyes. Ina was quick to grasp that

The carpet is too soft. Also the palm tree in the lobby is unbelievable. For a long time the Maitre looks at our faces, shuffling passports in his hands. Such dark-ringed eyes, such dark-ringed eyes. I knew a merchant from Smyrna, who also had a false front tooth. Nowadays one has to be terribly careful: informers and scorpions are everywhere. In the elevator we stand facing the mirror, but already at the first jerk we see silvery mildew in the place of our faces.

In the cool afternoon the fiend from hell specifically sent to lovers arrived at Janie's ear. Doubt.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout you just what they hope done happened.

Rumor, that wingless bird, had shadowed over the town.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' 'bout you just what they hope done happened.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear. They done 'heard' bout just what they hope done happened.