Suspicion Quotes · Page 10

“The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.”

— Flannery O'Connor

I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."

— Gary Jarman

There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.

— Benjamin Jowett

In a world filled with violence, hatred, and suspicion, giving is an expression of faith, trust, and concern.

— Douglas A. Lawson

“Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even. Lake”

— Colleen Hoover

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

— Edgar Allan Poe

All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

— Alexander Pope

A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean…

— Bella Pollen

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from…

— William Shakespeare

The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be…

— Lewis H. Lapham

When digging for answers in a relationship you will always find what you are looking for. The imagination is a powerful tool…

— Julie Hernandez

I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied…

— Peter Grimwade

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it…

— Auguste Rodin

Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is…

— Elie Wiesel

A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence,…

— Ben Jonson

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that…

— Joseph Addison

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts…

— Eric Hoffer

If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone…

— John F. Kennedy

At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the…

— Abraham Flexner

Many people today agree that we need to reduce violence in our society. If we are truly serious about this, we must…

— Anonymous

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do -…

— Dalai Lama

Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I…

— Anonymous

Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They…

— John Steinbeck

“The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life…

— Wilkie Collins

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Like many black people, I initially viewed the armed forces with a degree of suspicion.

— Clive Lewis

I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.

— Mark Hamill

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

— William Shakespeare

A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way.

— Philip Sidney

The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own

— Cullen Hightower

Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

— Wilkie Collins

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

— Kehinde Wiley

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.

— Swami Vivekananda

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

— E. B. White

People who come from a background of lying are suspicious of lying in others.

— Anonymous

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

— Horace

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

You usually don't care what other people are saying until they start whispering.

— Anonymous

Wear the badge of environmental radicalism, and you're a citizen automatically under suspicion.

— Alexander Cockburn