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Quotes About Suspicion

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood.
~ Shirley Jackson
She probably watches every move we make, anyway; it's probably part of what she agreed to." "Agreed to with whom, I wonder? Count Dracula?" "You think he lives in Hill House?" "I think he spends all his week ends here; I swear I saw bats in the woodwork
~ Shirley Jackson
They spoke lightly, quickly, and gave one another fast, hidden, little curious glances, each of them wondering what secret terror had been tapped in the others, what changes might show in face or gesture, what unguarded weakness might have opened the way to ruin. "Did
~ Shirley Jackson
Me imagino que el pueblo estaba lleno de corazones podridos que codiciaban nuestras pilas de monedas de oro, pero eran cobardes y temían a los Blackwood.
~ Shirley Jackson
He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.
~ Sidney Sheldon
If something seems to be too good to be true, Mary, it probably is.
~ Sidney Sheldon
often has no suspicion of the causal connection between the precipitating event and the pathological phenomenon.
~ Sigmund Freud
Indeed the fact that Lord Lucan continued to work without harassment as a publican in Dorking was a tribute to the expertise of Jack the Knife.
~ Simon Brett
Everything that men have written about women should be viewed with suspicion, because they are both judge and party,' wrote Poulain de la Barre,11 a little-known seventeenth-century feminist.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
They never learned whether she was in trade, living on alimony, or possessed of a family income. Sam suspected that she was an international spy. She was a pleasant woman, and very clever. She talked about herself constantly, and never told anything whatever about herself
~ Sinclair Lewis
you may question or even deny a bad vibe because you have no hard evidence to back up what you're feeling. Don't compromise your safety by falling into this trap. You do not need any other proof if you have bad vibes. If you sense that something is off, however difficult it may be to verify, trust your vibes and stay away. You may have to take a little heat for your suspicions, especially from five-sensory people who deny almost everything, but who cares?
~ Sonia Choquette
The atmosphere in the admin department also seemed very false. My suspicions were aroused when two employees spontaneously started singing the Panther Corporation song. I didn't even know there was a Panther Corporation song.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Oh God. I'm losing it. Everyone knows this is how criminals get caught. They add too many details and trip themselves up.
~ Sophie Kinsella
This is the last time I ever get a private detective off the internet.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Trust dies but mistrust blossoms.
~ Sophocles
Unnatural silence signifies no good.
~ Sophocles
But don't convict me on sheer unverified surmise.
~ Sophocles
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
~ Sophocles
My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. ... I am simply basted together until after breakfast.
~ Gladys Taber
Nothing is uncontroversial anymore, and very little is innocent.
~ Hans Koning
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.
~ Joan Didion
That is the problem with our world. Nobody trusts anybody. We are just waiting for somebody to save us.
~ Avijeet Das
She doesn't trust easily, but when she does it's always with the devil himself.
~ Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy
Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.
~ John Newton