Quotes About Suspicion

She thought that she rather liked Lady Eustace. But then Lady Fawn hated Lady Linlithgow as only two old women can hate each other; — and she had not heard the story of the diamond necklace

Every Reason to Lie

It is not a good feeling being right about something you have suspected when you finally gain undeniable confirmation that it's true. It is not the satisfying sensation of everything slipping into place for which you have yearned. It's more like, Oh, right.

De verdad crees en los dioses? —Yo sí. —¿En qué te basas? —En que me aborrecen. ¿No es un indicio verosímil?

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

He had a suspicion of plausible answers; they were so often wrong.

Alexander Wainwright was a tall, handsome man in the late forties. He was, Stormgren knew, completely honest, and therefore doubly dangerous.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off with the treasure? How's that? On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside.

How do you know that? I followed you. I saw no one. That is what you may expect to see when I follow you.

A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there was a loud and authoritative tap.

I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.

Sterndale sprang to his feet. "I believe that you are the devil himself!" he cried. Holmes smiled at the compliment.

will, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely." "I

think that it is most probable that Beddoes, pushed to desperation and believing himself to have been already betrayed, had revenged himself upon Hudson, and had fled from the country with as much money as he could lay his hands on. Those are the facts of the case, Doctor, and if they are of any use to your

For God's sake, please don't sneeze and if you're holding a grudge against me for anything I did, real or imagined, I apologize profusely and swear I'll never do it again." "Don't worry, Caillen, I'll be careful." He definitely hoped so. But the wicked gleam in her eye and slight smile on her lips made him wonder if he'd lie down as a rooster and get up as a hen. Stop being paranoid. You can trust her. After

I always knew you were hiding something from me. I was just never sure what. Funny, I used to think it was another woman you loved, not a lunatic brother. Catherine says to Micheal.

It watches, he added suddenly. The house. It watches every move you make.

Everything is worse...if you think something is looking at you.

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?' 'None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

Everything is worse," he said, looking at Eleanor, "if you think something is looking at you.

When Luke and I are called outside, and you two are kept imprisoned inside - doesn't it begin to seem - and his voice is very quiet - doesn't it begin to seem that the intention is, somehow, to separate us?

The weather falls more gently on some places than on others, the world looks down more paternally on some people. Some spots are proverbially warm, and keep, through falling snow, their untarnished reputations as summer resorts; some people are automatically above suspicion.