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Quotes About Suspicion

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Once she even referred to them as Grimward and Grinning, but something about the way she said it made me suspect it was a joke.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
but in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
He was very suspicious of inventions, for they always meant that some rule would have to be broken.
~ Patrick Süskind
Or don't you trust me?" "I work in Hell, Jones, I don't trust anyone except myself and I keep a close eye on my shadow. Possession
~ Unknown
Once you turn against yourself, it's hard not to believe that everyone else is against you, too
~ Paul Auster
These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear. Impugn a man's character, and everything that man does is made to seem underhanded, suspect, fraught with double motives.
~ Paul Auster
I suspect this abbey, for all its sanctity, houses a veritable brew of malevolent, murderous mischief.
~ Unknown
MOST LIES succeed because no one goes through the work to figure out how to catch them.
~ Paul Ekman
Suspicious people should be terrible lie catchers, prone to disbelieving-the-truth
~ Paul Ekman
Such people are not known for their sense of humour and lightness of touch; they rarely break a smile. To them, change is always suspect and usually damnable, and they hardly ever contribute to human development.
~ Unknown
the question falls within the penumbra of the detective's expertise.
~ Paul Levine
The man behind the check-in counter gives the impression that he has just axe-murdered the motel's owner (and family, and family pet) and is going through these procedures of hostelry so as not to arouse suspicion.
~ Paul Quarrington
His story and the detailed nature of his belief system make me suspect that he is suffering from paranoid ideas. I love that: I'm suspicious that Mr. Hill is suspicious. It makes me think of those now yellowing crime-fighting signs from ten or fifteen years earlier that say: Report suspicious people. Suspicious people report suspicious people. Suspicious people report suspicious people report suspicious people. Add paranoia, stir and repeat, stir and repeat, stir and repeat.
~ Unknown
Believing a patient's lies is not a professional failure. Psychiatrists are trained to detect, understand, and treat psychopathology, not to function as lie detectors. While a certain level of suspicion is essential in the practice of psychiatry, clinicians, determined never to be taken in by deceitful patients, will approach them with such exaggerated suspicion that therapeutic work will be impossible.
~ Unknown
The weird part was that Gin kind of wanted the woman to suspect that something was going on. The best part of being up to no good is when people know you're up to no good, but can't do a thing about it.
~ Unknown
Louis could never shake the suspicion that some people, whether consciously or not, called the storm to themselves.
~ Unknown
Still, I don't trust a man I haven't seen tight.
~ Paula McLain
At first she thought him nothing more than a careless rogue, taking her as a wife just to have her in his bed. But she
~ Unknown
Gya!! Stay away from me, weirdo! I'll press the burglar alarm!
~ Unknown
Of course I'm not going to look through the keyhole. That's something only servants do. I'm going to hide in the bay window.
~ Unknown
Today, citizens were at once less trusting and more credulous. Many had swallowed lies of vast proportion.
~ Peter D. Kramer