Quotes About Suspicion

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

The jealous know nothing, suspect much, and fear everything.

Jealousy does not wait for reasons.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes

Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence.

Jealousy, an eminently credulous and suspicious passion, allows fancy the greatest possible play. But it does not bestow wit, it banishes all sense.

Jealousy, the old worm that bites.

It's the sort of subject that always interests me: jealousy and the language of suspicion and guilt. I think it interests people.

One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.

It's like, you can't trust anybody, and if somebody you know doesn't fuck you over it's just because the price of selling you down the river was never high enough.

Hunger bred anger, anger bred suspicion, suspicion bred crowds, and crowds bred mobs.

Jefferson) was deeply suspicious of Hamilton's assumption plan (by which the nation would assume responsibility for the states' individual war debts.) He feared this was yet another example of the avaricious hand of the unscrupulous money powers, the sprawling, hydra-headed creature associated with banks, stock markets and devious speculators, especially in New York, Boston, and the City of London, not to mention unrepublican, unAmerican attitudes of all kinds - everything he despised.

Find one lousy body in your aunt's fireplace and the first thing you know everyone is talking.

They're crooked as corkscrews, the lot of them!

Pour qui sont ces serpents qui sifflent sur vos têtes ?

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Social life almost ceased. Even in church, each worshipper was wary of his neighbour.

His mother hadn't know what Durex was. But she had suspected. She had asked him, gravely, if it was 'anything bad'. Useless trying to explain. Useless, subsequently, trying to convince his father that he was only acting like a responsible citizen.

On the same day, two murders.