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Quotes About Suspicion

Johnny did not bother to do a background check on Damien.
~ Garrett Sutton
Then we knew he was lying.
~ Gary Paulsen
Do not put too much faith in government
~ Gary Snyder
It's how I figured out what you're actually facing.  But before I prove I'm actually useful here, why don't you tell me why the man who used it has to die?
~ Gene Doucette
For so many years I feared that he would try to murder me, but in the end it was I who would have murdered him. He may burn my book if he chooses.) Third
~ Gene Wolfe
For Cato says that he who is guilty believes every one speaks only of him.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
or that he is a talker of idle words of folly or of villainy ..also when he promises or assures to do things that he can not perform; also when that he by frivolity or folly slanders or scorns his neighbor; also when he has any wicked suspicion of thing where he knows of it no truthfulness: these things, and more without number, are sins
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
If a man is clean shaved and has a well-fitting collar and tie - even reasonably dirty - he can get away with a multitude of suspicious circumstances
~ Geoffrey Household
I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
~ George Eliot
It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them
~ George Eliot
for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it.
~ George Eliot
He distrusted her affection; and what loneliness is more lonely than distrust
~ George Eliot
Él desconfiaba del cariño de Dorothea y ¿qué soledad hay mayor que la de la desconfianza?
~ George Eliot
Public spirit was not held in high esteem at St. Ogg's, and men who busied themselves with political questions were regarded with some suspicion, as dangerous characters; they were usually persons who had little or no business of their own to manage, or, if they had, were likely enough to become insolvent.
~ George Eliot
Women are suspicious of this male ritual of the bachelor party and are suspicious of what men do and say when they are not being watched by them.
~ Craig Mazin
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.
~ Alger Hiss
Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them.
~ Heather Graham
My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
~ Whittaker Chambers
I love 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but I'm pretty sure Woody Allen hasn't killed somebody.
~ Mike Birbiglia
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.
~ Helen Fisher
I live surrounded by threats. I must stay alert. I am a law-abiding citizen; have never broken any rule while driving. But if someone clicks a photo or shoots a video, I have to be suspicious of their intentions.
~ Ravish Kumar
A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.
~ Gillian Flynn
As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre.
~ Jordan Peele