Quotes About Suspicion

I kept telling them I didn't know anything about it, but half of them seemed to think that I was lying, and the other half that I was hinting at something.

MEN WHO THINK THEY ARE OPPRESSED WILL SOMEDAY FIGHT. I WILL REMOVE FROM THEM NOT JUST THEIR WILL TO RESIST, BUT THE VERY SUSPICION THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG.

He expected the other man to be dead—not many could survive a thirty-foot fall to cobblestones with another's weight on top of him—but what he had not expected was to see the fellow's dagger driven to the hilt into his own heart. Such an ordinary-looking man to have tried to kill him. Mat did not think he would even have noticed him in a crowded room.

Only a Darkfriend would betray an oath such as that one. Of course, every Seanchan was close to being a Darkfriend.

With the fog to hide them . . . well, when what they do is hidden, men sometimes deal with strangers in ways they wouldn't if there were other eyes to see. And the quickest to harm a stranger are the soonest to think a stranger will harm them.

How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?" Dobraine

If you shook hands with a Taren Ferry man, people said, you counted your fingers afterwards.

As sure as peaches are poison.

once was happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but thrice or more indicated the actions of your enemies.

Trust no-one, he thought bleakly. For an instant, he did not know if it was his thought or Lous-Therin's, but in the end he decided it did not matter. Everybody had their own goals, their own desires. Much the best to trust no-one completely except himself. Yet he wondered, with another man oozing through the back of his mind, how far he could trust himself.

Always remember that. There were enemies everywhere, and you never knew who.

Our fine Governor called me here to ask me to talk to you--said you didn't seem too happy here. He knows we're pals. He wanted me to just--I don't know, make sure you weren't going to cause any trouble or something.

without preamble.

I was offended by his suspicion that any of us would ever write about such sensitive matters.

Those who thus seek to screen an idol from criticism only betray their own suspicions about the worthiness of the totem they worship.

Jeremy: Who did it? Wait-you think I did. Don't you? Ash: It did cross our minds at one point. Actually, it seemed to keep crossing them. Back and forth. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk.

Nathan always believed his wife was trying to poison him but he didn't seem to mind. He said it made life kind of exciting.

You'd be surprised how many divorces start with "I smelled the bitch on him.

For all you know it invites people to rob us. (Woodrow Call's disparaging comment on the Latin sign Gus McCrae affixed to their wagon.)

If you did a thing hoping a person wouldn't find out, that person always did.

What are you doing here?" Juarez removed the glasses. "You always this friendly?" She

Maybe she hired Black." Dani tried

You're up to something, I said. He turned, eyes wide, long fingers pressed to his heart. Moi? Yeah, you

Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.