Suspicion Quotes

“Kill with no mercy, love with suspicion.”

— Leslie Langtry

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

— Julius Caesar

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

— William Rounseville Alger

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

— William Shakespeare

Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

— Anonymous

At the gate where suspicion enters, love goes out.

— English Proverb

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

— Sophie Swetchine

“A spirit of suspicion is not the gift of discernment.”

— R. Alan Woods

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

— Christopher Hitchens

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

— Anonymous

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

Another bad thing about prosperity is that you can't jingle any money without bein' under suspicion.

— Kin Hubbard

As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with…

— Stella Young

I have a suspicion of lockstep and everyone looking in the same direction: that's a key character trait in me.

— Naomi Alderman

“A lady’s success will so often be looked on with dark suspicion, while a dude’s success is looked on as his due.”

— Sarah Rees Brennan

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

— Guy Davenport

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the…

— Roger Waters

I had one kid with the birth control pill, I had one with the diaphram and I had one with the I.U.D.…

— Roseanne Barr

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions…

— Eric Ambler

I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Doubt and suspicion can be very self destructive, inflicting unnecessary pain upon oneslef and others too. It is YOU who can change…

— Mufti Ismail Menk

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine…

— Nhat Hanh

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing,…

— Meg Greenfield

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the…

— Karl Mannheim

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to…

— Tom Hanks

What are the two of you whispering about?” Alaric demanded irritably. She glanced over to see the warrior watching her, his eyes…

— Maya Banks

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all…

— Rod Serling

In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in…

— Mario Cuomo

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has…

— John F. Kennedy

It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book.…

— Henry David Thoreau

The philosopher, who with calm suspicion examines the dreams and omens, the miracles and prodigies, of profane or even of ecclesiastical history,…

— Edward Gibbon

“Research shows that takers harbor doubts about others’ intentions, so they monitor vigilantly for information that others might harm them, treating others…

— Adam M. Grant

Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the…

— William O. Douglas

It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent…

— H. L. Mencken

As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,…

— Fritjof Capra

Part of our identity is the idea that racism is still there and that we are vulnerable to it. So, the question…

— Shelby Steele

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down,…

— Richard Bausch

In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,…

— Alan Lightman

It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that…

— Gary A. Klein

FIRST keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker towards others. A peaceable man doth more…

— Thomas Kempis