Suspicion Quotes

411 quotes by 353 authors

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure… — Saint Augustine
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may… — Jane Austen
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be… — Russell Baker
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to… — Hosea Ballou
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will… — Joseph Addison
Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as… — Johannes Brahms
It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable… — Jan Brewer
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being… — Edmund Burke
Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. — Robert Burns
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. — Samuel Butler
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did… — Smedley Butler
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. — Julius Caesar
A defence in the Inquisition is of little use to the prisoner, for a suspicion only is deemed sufficient cause of condemnation, and the greater… — John Foxe
We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time… — Errol Barrow
Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I… — Albert Einstein
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. — Guy Davenport
Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. — James Monroe
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. — Miguel de Cervantes
Ambition and suspicion always go together. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. — Max Beerbohm

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