Best 100 quotes in «suspicion quotes» category

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.

Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion.

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.

Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

My suspicion is that once you have literacy in place, the readership has not changed very much.

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.

People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

The rating [of "Aquarius"] was eventually brought down to 16 after the third appeal. Everything blew up after the second appeal because the press picked it up and spurred suspicions of persecution.

The finger of suspicion never forgets the way it has once pointed.

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Trump doesn't understand the counterintelligence process. Take, for example, Carter Page. He's been appearing on television and acting as though the U.S. intelligence community monitoring his activities in Russia and suspicions that he may have been in league with Russian intelligence is an affront.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

The world was not created once and for all time for each of us individually. There are added to it in the course of our life things of which we have never had any suspicion.

Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.

Almost everything that will be said or done by someone who is suspected of being insane will seem to confirm that suspicion.

We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.

A bachelor always feels himself defrauded, when he knows or suspects that any woman of his acquaintance has given herself away.

You can't create an ocean with a single drop. But you can create an ocean of suspicion with a single drop of doubt.

Absolution is the most powerful form of forgiveness. A full pardon from suspicion and accountability. It's the liberation of a stolen future. A future my father never lived to see. Absolution is a mercy the people who killed him will never know.

After all, the entire process of "getting along" is nothing more than a cycle of deception. You're lying to yourself and others. They acknowledge that they're being deceived, and you acknowledge that they're deceiving you [. . .] In the end, it's nothing more than falsehood, suspicion, and deceit.

Always doubtful is the one who always looks for certainty.

Distrust is like a vicious fire that keeps going and going, even put out, it will reignite itself, devouring the good with the bad, and still feeding on empty.

And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been if he and I had been capable of trusting each other for a change. And so we hunted, and sang, and laughed, and told heavily edited stories of the good old days, while each of us watched the other and wondered when the knife would fall.

A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does.

Be polite, be courteous, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

Charming. We're going to be murdered in our beds.

Did you ever get the feeling that everything was too perfect? Like the moment was so good that something had to be wrong? Kind of like the way a fish sees that bright, shiny lure just before it chomps down and gets hauled out of water to become someone's lunch.

God doesn't listen to me too, but people have their suspicions. सुनता तो रब हमारी भी नहीं, पर लोगों को अल्लाह पे शक बेशक है

I did not know then what Brother William was seeking, and to tell the truth, I still do not know today, and I presume he himself did not know, moved as he was solely by the desire for truth, and by the suspicion - which I could see he always harbored - that the truth was not what was appearing to him at any given moment.

He could see her, but dared not remain for fear of annoying her by seeming to be spying upon the pleasures which she tasted in other company, pleasures which - while he drove home in utter loneliness, and went to bed, as anxiously as I myself was to go to bed, some years later, on the evenings when he came to dine with us at Combray - seemed illimitable to him since he had not been able to see their end.

I almost regret having helped you in your researches & having told you what I did

I had better spend the day quietly, sleep in the afternoon perhaps, and then start again hunting for Hugo. I would have much preferred to look for Anna. But I had no idea now where to start looking. Also I wanted to lay quickly to rest the terrible suspicion that where I found Hugo now I would also find Anna. This idea didn't bear thinking about and so I didn't think about it.