Quotes About Suspicion

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

I have a suspicious mind, and murder is kind of my business.

I'm supposed to believe it's a coincidence that we're both former spies that ended up together?

He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.

With distrust came suspicion and with suspicion came fear, and with fear came hate--and these, in already distorted minds, inflamed a hell.

Donata Santori looked down at the dead body lying at her feet and thought, 'Damn, that can't be a good sign.

Go on, just come out with it, whatever it is." She braced herself against the counter. Peter glanced down at the tile floor, and then back up at her, and sighed. "Fine. Here it is. Do you think Witches could have killed my father?

Even when I succeed in getting there we only have an hour. At ten o'clock the night-watch trumpet sounds and those who are out return to bed. What a blameless, hardworking nation we are. In bed by ten, faithful husbands and faithful wives. It is no city for lovers, for those out late on the street are viewed with suspicion.

Something else to ask her landlord about… or maybe

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

Cate felt that just by looking at them, people might have guessed that something was wrong, that something had frightened them; and that fear was like a wire which connected them with each other and isolated them from everyone else.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I wondered that day if I was the only one in the room who knew that there was something terribly wrong with our mother.

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies against despots -- suspicion.

But it felt as though someone were watching us.

It was a trap. It was so obviously a trap. Darquesse smiled.

I don't find you suspicious at all.' He turned to Martha and whispered, 'I find him incredibly suspicious.

Do you remember what Crux said?" Scorn asked China. "I bet you do. He said that you handed Skulduggery Pleasant's wife and child over to Nefarian Serpine. He said that you led them to their deaths... Blackmail is just an ugly, ungainly word, but these are ugly and ungainly times in which we live. You will do as I say, exactly as I say, or I will tell the Skeleton Detective your terrible, terrible secret. Do you agree to my terms?

That man," Carol said. "The thin man at Gordon's will reading, with the ridiculous name. He's involved in this, isn't he?" "Skulduggery Pleasant," Valkyrie nodded. "And yes, he is.

You better not be implying what I think you're implying.

Oh, yeah," Axelia whispered back. "I think I'm freaking out a bit. I've never seen a murder victim before." Omen frowned at her. "How do you know he was murdered?" "He has a knife sticking out of his back." Omen took a few steps to his left, and saw the knife handle. "Oh, yeah.

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.