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Quotes About Suspicion

That's the worst thing about money - the moment you have some you begin to suspect everyone of trying to take it away from you. And usually they are.
~ Helen McCloy
When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"
~ Joe Arpaio
They say that Virginia is the mother of Texas. We never knew who the father was, but we kinda suspected Tennessee.
~ Tex Ritter
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
~ Alice Sebold
I suspect that hunger was my mother.
~ Plautus
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
~ William Rounseville Alger
I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.
~ Leopold Sedar Senghor
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.
~ John Lahr
My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.
~ Malcolm X
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
~ Margaret Atwood
Don't invite envy to your house – you never know who will show up, " she used to warn me.
~ Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
What was Dr. Mera's motive for murder? I don't need to tell that to a writer of detective novels such as yourself. You know well enough yourself that even without a motive, a murderer lives to kill.
~ Rampo Edogawa
It seems to be a law of human nature that those who live by the sea are suspiciousof swimmers, just as those who live in the mountains are suspicious of mountainclimbers.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
~ Rod Serling
There is an element of paranoia in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as somehow directed against Israel.
~ Zbigniew Brzezinski
You know that when ex-military personnel start assassinating their own government's agents that something funky is going on.
~ Steven Magee
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
~ William S. Burroughs
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
~ William Shakespeare
It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.
~ David Hume
At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.
~ Thomas Paine
I used to be sceptic, but not anymore, because now I am positive that I'm getting screwed.
~ Dennis Miller
The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Contra: Why don't you trust me honey? Wait, rather I doubt that you are in a going around.
~ Vikrmn, Corpkshetra