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Quotes About Suspicion

There's daggers in men's smiles.
~ William Shakespeare
What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.
~ Jim Bishop
Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?
~ Mike Rowe
From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.
~ Muriel Spark
To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.
~ John Adams
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
~ Seneca the Younger
I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides, I know what I dealt him!
~ W. C. Fields
Beware of a man with manners.
~ Eudora Welty
Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.
~ Anne Frank
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps.
~ Bill O'Reilly
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.
~ Brandon Sanderson
He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We're going to die," Keith said, the moment he was gone. "This man is a serial killer. We're going to die, and he's going to bury us in his garden and build a shed on us.
~ Maureen Johnson
In the bed of suspicion, no cushion can make a man to sleep
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
~ Plautus
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
~ H. L. Mencken
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
A man talking fast has something to hide.
~ Haim Bar-Lev
Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko
~ Haruki Murakami
Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.
~ Horace
I was in Covent Garden today having a pizza, and these men who worked there were secretly trying to take my picture from behind the counter. That sort of thing is so odd.
~ Joanna Page
Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion
~ Kin Hubbard
The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.
~ Babatunde Fashola