Suspicious Quotes · Page 5

If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home.

— George Clooney

I'm suspicious when I go to someone's house and everything is beautiful and perfect. Authenticity often means mistakes.

— Grayson Perry

Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious - there was generally some reason for it.

— John Galsworthy

“Only one lie is enought to make all honesty look suspicious...”

— Ray

I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.

— Henry Paulson

“I was born a cynical, suspicious, forty-five-year-old divorcée”

— Gabourey Sidibe

He that is conscious of a stink in his breeches is [suspicious] of every wrinkle in another's nose.

— Benjamin Franklin

“we all have a tendency to mistrust each other, to be suspicious of what we don’t understand.”

— Heather Graham

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor…

— Edward Gibbon

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on…

— Tami Hoag

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed…

— Meg Rosoff

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I’ve long suspected myself of being a suspicious person. But that’s OK, because suspicious people make better lovers, right?”

— Jarod Kintz

I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right…

— Peter Costello

Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

Be suspicious of people who have, or crave, power. Never, ever go near power. Don't become friends with anyone who has real…

— Stanley Kubrick

Dan was suspicious. "How did he find out where we were staying?" Amy frowned. "I think that's the message inside the message.…

— Gordon Korman

The First Amendment...does not say that in every respect there shall be a separation of Church and State…Otherwise the state and religion…

— William O. Douglas

Israelis and Palestinians are suspicious of each other and of promises from outside. But the need for a negotiated solution between the…

— David Miliband

I'm more than a little suspicious of humor in poems, because I think it can at times be a way of getting…

— Matthew Zapruder

The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that…

— J. G. Ballard

I met him while I was imprisoned," I say, and my voice sounds far away even to me. "I was just curious."…

— Veronica Roth

My high school, like most high schools, had a pretty rigid stratification system. Kids were clustered into groups - the studious ones,…

— Parker J. Palmer

Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of…

— John Lukacs

Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Might sound a little awkward, but I get suspicious when someone crosses out Christ on Christmas, then types Xmas.

— Jeromy Shingongo

I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false…

— Marlon James

Be suspicious of your sincerity when you are the advocate of that upon which your livelihood depends.

— John Lancaster Spalding

I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.

— Jill Alexander Essbaum

I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person.

— Bill Murray

I am suspicious without a motive, and jealous without love; although I feel I ought to love since I desire to be…

— George Henry Lewes

I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary.

— Elton John

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

— Victor Hugo

You risk just as much in being credulous as in being suspicious.

— Denis Diderot

Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth…

— Homer Hickam

I'm always suspicious when a guy takes his date on a walk, because it reeks of poverty and an inability to plan.

— Julie Klausner

“After each book the world changes in my eyes, i have become more suspicious and eager at the same time.”

— Anna Jae

Always flat front. You've got to be deeply suspicious of a man who consciously goes with pleats. Why would you do that?

— Mike Rowe

No, I did not want the receipt, but now that you've asked, I'm getting suspicious. So yes please I want it.

— Green Monk

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

— H. L. Mencken