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Quotes About Suspicion

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
~ Oscar Wilde
The happiness of many marriages is founded on the old proverb: Suspicion doesn't amount to conviction.
~ Unknown
I watched her saunter over. It was something about her steps. Her arms crossed in front of her. Her timing. The deliberate casualness of it all. The muscles in my neck tightened. I didn't have a good feeling about it. Then she smiled, and I knew. Don't do this, Lia. But I really wasn't sure just what she was doing. I only knew no good would come of it. I knew the language of Lia. I
~ Mary E. Pearson
I couldn't see it, but I was certain Priya kicked Jalaine beneath the table because Jalaine jumped in her seat, then shot Priya and angry scow.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I have been afraid of you, Mr. Robert Audley," she thought, "but perhaps the time may come in which you will have cause to be afraid of me.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
just as you're looking into her daughter's murder?
~ Mary Higgins Clark
The ones who are innocent help because they trust us. And the ones who aren't so innocent pretend to trust us because they're afraid of looking guilty.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
Death would soon carry off Zola as well, although in his case the suspicion existed, and still exists, that he was murdered. No concrete evidence was ever produced to prove this, and yet the circumstances of his death were sufficiently odd to encourage speculation.
~ Unknown
Russians suspected of liberal tendencies were watched, and upon the slightest pretext sent to Siberia,
~ Unknown
I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.
~ Mary Stewart
our mail is being read by the DODO,
~ Unknown
Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It's happened once, it could happen again, so you're always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it's reappeared...
~ Matt Dunn
In California the only way to look like you are getting older is to look like you are getting younger...if you can move your forehead over the age of forty, then people become very suspicious.
~ Matt Haig
in California, the only way to look like you are getting older is to look like you are getting younger. If you could move your forehead over the age of forty then people become very suspicious.
~ Matt Haig
California, the only way to look like you are getting older is to look like you are getting younger. If you can move your forehead over the age of forty then people become very suspicious.
~ Matt Haig
Father Christmas?' said Father Vodol, suspiciously. 'It doesn't sound very memorable.
~ Matt Haig
The thing people overlook, though," Mr. Fox added, "is that that whole part of the story describing the relationship between Jekyll and Hyde, that's all Dr. Jekyll talking. And you can't trust Jekyll." As Mr. Fox spoke he looked away from the chessboard, and his daughter took the opportunity to sneak her queen onto a different square.
~ Unknown
Voltaire : La sombre Jalousie au teint pâle et livide Suit d'un pied chancelant le Soupçon qui la guide2.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Laws are made to protect the trusting as well the suspicious. - Hugo L. Black
~ Max Allan Collins
But the dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
~ Max Beerbohm
He thought she might kill him accidentally or on purpose.
~ Meg Wolitzer
She had learned to read before kindergarten, when she'd first suspected that her parents weren't all that interested in her.
~ Meg Wolitzer
I figured I'd duck out....before Goody Osbourne took the stand.
~ Megan Abbott