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Quotes About Suspicion

She offered Patrolman Mancuso a torn and oily cake box that looked as if it had been subjected to unusual abuse during someone's attempt to take all of the doughnuts at once. At the bottom of the box Patrolman Mancuso found two withered pieces of doughnut out of which, judging by their moist edges, the jelly had been sucked.
~ John Kennedy Toole
What you think about somebody wants peace, Claude?" "That sounds like a communiss to me." Mrs. Reilly's worst fears were realized.
~ John Kennedy Toole
For a long time the New York Stock Exchange looked with suspicion on the investment trusts; only in 1929 was fisting permitted.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Jealousy can wreck a marriage, try getting to know the postman.
~ John Lennon
It was never a big leap from "unfamiliar" to "suspected
~ Christie Golden
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
~ William Hazlitt
The candid incline to surmise of late that the Christian faith proves false.
~ Robert Browning
Never have I greater reason for suspicion that when I am particularly pleased with myself, my faith, my progress, and my alms.
~ Christian Scriver
He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them.
~ Lao-Tzu
I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers.
~ Dane Cook
I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.
~ Shirley Jackson
I'd lost all faith in everything, except for the certainty that there's always someone behind our backs waiting to deceive us.
~ Unknown
Be careful who you trust remember the devil is a jack of all traits.
~ Unknown
When a woman feels like her emotions are being played with she becomes the FBI.
~ Unknown
I really hate this. I hate being scared all the time. I hate not being able to trust people because of one event, and one stupid guy.
~ Unknown
T.G.T.B.T: too good to be true.
~ Madonna
I admit that I may have been lonely. I know that loneliness can produce bolts of hot pain, a pain which, if it stays hot enough for long enough, can begin to simulate, or to provoke -- take your pick -- an apprehension of the divine. (This ought to arouse our suspicions.)
~ Maggie Nelson
The thing about the Nazis," Ruud said, "is that they're paranoid, but they never see what's right under their noses. If they did, Hitler wouldn't wear that bloody silly little moustache.
~ Mal Peet
Nina flipped through the photos taken at the crime scene and stopped when she noticed
~ Unknown
prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And the thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own for the children and the children yet unborn.…
~ Unknown
It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously said, and we cannot confirm our suspicions by the culprit's evidence, for he will admit nothing; we are reduced to the evidence of our own senses, and we ask ourselves, in the face of this detached and incoherent fragment of recollection, whether indeed our senses have not been the victims of a hallucination...
~ Marcel Proust
But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.
~ Marcel Proust
Got here half an hour ago and had a look, eyeballin' it, Sawyer said. It's murder, all right. Tell you something else - the sun went down, and it's as dark as the inside of a horses's ass out here. You're sure? Well, I've never actually been inside a horses's ass.
~ John Sandford
They were the rumors that might follow any rich man who stayed to himself, Virgil thought, and who at the same time was thoroughly hated.
~ John Sandford