Quotes About Suspicion

I will even not rant about treachery. I was brought up in a sea of treachery and deceit and betrayal. I swam in it like perch in the Nile. I am completely at home in it. I shall not drown.

The two women looked at each other as if through the periscopes of enemy submarines across a fathomless and crawling sea.

Hose-pipe – car exhaust – locked room – all that, not original,' he blurted out at last. 'Plagiarism. All in a book.' 'In

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself

Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any viable reason.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Well, if you're suspecting your lover is having an affair, it's definitely devastating. It's really a terrible, terrible feeling because you have no control.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

I spy with my little eye...bi...es everywhere who are bored with their lives and love to spread lies.

I am kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

You know the old saying," said Nick. "Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

He was betting on a jilted caddie or a jealous husband.

I am somewhat skeptical about these findings.

It was an organization of obstacles and precautions—based at bottom on a profound suspicion of human nature."11 Furthermore,

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies.

In this world only the paranoid survive.