Quotes About Suspicion

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

LOTHAM IS THE DEDICATED, WORKAHOLIC detective I suspected him to be. He doesn't take me to some evidence lab or special countersurveillance expert.

Just because you haven't gotten caught, doesn't mean you're innocent." "And just because you're suspicious, doesn't mean I'm guilty.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

It's good to be cynical, he said. That is, if you know when to stop. Most of the things that we're all taught to respect and reverence- they don't deserve anything but cynicism.

Never trust the enemy that gives you presents

Everybody was a potential assailant; nobody spoke to one another for fear of being misinterpreted; nobody comforted another, put an arm around a shoulder-to do so would be to invite accusation.

People with something to hide wore sunglasses indoors. They were the ones you had to watch very carefully.

Be very careful of anything that looks too good to be true. Because if it looks too good to be true, that's probably because that's exactly what it is!

Sometimes people simply did not want to find things out. Nobody was missing, nobody was cheating on their wives, nobody was embezzling. At such times, a private detective may as well hand a closed sign on the office door and go plant melons.

it...planted seeds of doubt as to whether we think diabolically enough when we wonder what our government is doing behind our backs.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

How strange, continued the king, with some asperity; the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.

I swear, you are frightening me! said Dantes. Is the world full of tigers and crocodiles then? Yes, except that the tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.

Michael pulled himself up straighter, wondering if he should let any of them across his threshold. He'd watched enough vampire movies to know they couldn't hurt you in your own home unless you invited them inside.

Eavesdroppers, she had always heard, and similarly people burrowing into private matters, found nothing to comfort them.

Rasa cemburu adalah obat yang lebih adiktif dan memuaskan daripada apa pun yang dikenal oleh umat manusia. Efeknya instan, menyambar kita lebih cepat daripada kilat, dan membuat kita mabuk dalam sekejap. Begitu kita berada di sana, teler berkat hal yang disebut kecemburuan ini, kita melihat kesempatan untuk curiga di mana-mana.

Probably a serial killer, she thought to herself.

woman do you take me for?

even after he had slipped a knife between your shoulder blades, you would think that this was somehow your fault.