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Suspect Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
- Pope had been flattered till he thought himself one of the moving powers of the system of life. When he talked of laying down his…
- But, perhaps, the flatterer is not often detected; for an honest mind is not apt to suspect, and no one exerts the power of discernment…
- men do not suspect faults which they do not commit
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I…
- But the greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail (against the government), and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor…
- When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of 21, little did I suspect that I should be at 49, what I…
- He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as…
More Suspect Quotes
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little. — Francis Bacon
- I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator… — J. G. Ballard
- Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit,… — Jo Brand
- I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,… — Geraldine Brooks
- The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of… — Marc Ian Barasch