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Quotes About Suspicion

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
~ William Shakespeare
Don't trust a guy who accuses you of infidelity. He's cheating. He's projecting. If you're living that kind of life, you think everybody else is too.
~ Bradley Cooper
A thief believes everybody steals.
~ Edward Howe
he did not suffer bullet wounds.
~ Edward Jay Epstein
Forget the privacy; we all are the spy and spying on each other in every way on every subject.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The morally, religiously ill, and narrow-minded people and extremists neither see nor understand the depth and the myth of any subject that leads towards the concept of the welfare of all humans. Such people are suspicious of themselves and are poison for society and its inhabitants. Keep away from and reject them; it means your way of wisdom is secure to live in peace and harmony.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
When a man has been burned once with hot soup he forever after blows upon cold rice"; so these men of China will think long before trusting again a foreigner with their silver.
~ Eileen Goudge
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Why no!" I cried, astonished. "Adela marry! You might as well suspect a faded lettuce of falling in love.
~ Eleanor Scott
My mother always saw evil where, to my great annoyance, it was sooner or later discovered that evil really was, and her crossed eye seemed made purposely to identify the secret motives of the neighborhood.
~ Elena Ferrante
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
~ Elia Kazan
Most religions do not make men better, only warier.
~ Elias Canetti
ANDREW: Supposing someone saw you climing in? MILO: Who? You're not overlooked. ANDREW: Who knows? A dallying couple. A passing sheep rapist.
~ Anthony Shaffer
Based on what I'd heard thus far, I could have easily and justifiably accused Jeff of stalking Francis Arsenault.
~ Antoine Wilson
shouldn't do anything suspicious, like trying to map out the entire city in the first week.
~ Antonio J. Méndez
After so much time he was still searching as he had then, hoping for something he couldn't name but that corroded or undermined his stability of thought, not allowing him real rest, injecting doubt and suspicion into the evident satisfaction or everything he'd achieved
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
As the support to a person increases, so should be the rise of the doubt either on his/her intention or on the intent of the people in support or on all of them because we live in a selfish world.
~ Anuj Somany
Beware of a man who speaks in favour or admiration of women.
~ Anuj Somany
Fools either can't doubt on someone who is actually untrustworthy or will suspect somebody who is not really worth doubting.
~ Anuj Somany
Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a supposedly 'clean' politician is to grin. It is a cliche that honest politicians in India tend to have dishonest sons, who collect money from people seeking an audience with Dad.
~ Aravind Adiga
Will there be traitors, Father?" "There are always traitors. Trust nobody.
~ Ariana Franklin
I chuckled without humor and sat up in the chair. "If I'm not mistaken, you just asked me how much to kill your daughter?
~ Armand Rosamilia
It's true — we have no proof, or rather no concrete proof, against you. But we do have the conviction that you are a potential enemy of the Revolution. For us, that is enough.
~ Armando Valladares
He who would speak of unknown authors, buried beneath the rubble of centuries, inevitably lays himself open, at least to begin with, to the suspicion of being a crotchety sort with very queer tastes.
~ Arno Schmidt