quotations about suspicion
Suspicion very rarely occupies the bosom of innocence.
JOSEPH BARTLETT
Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry VI, Part III
Suspicion aint' proof.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Like those imperceptible insects which, having once penetrated the root of a tree devour it in a single night, suspicion, when it invades our minds, soon develops itself and destroys our firmest beliefs.
ÉMILE GABORIAU
File No. 113
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
SCOTT DIKKERS
You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day
We are being sacrificed by our own suspicions
We are being sodomized by repetitions
SERJ TANKIAN
"Butterfly"
He that lives in perpetual suspicion lives the life of a sentinel--of a sentinel never relieved, whose business it is to look out for and expect an enemy, which is an evil not very far short of perishing by him.
EDWARD YOUNG
A Vindication of Providence; Or, A True Estimate of Human Life
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.
GOSHO AOYAMA
Meitantei Konan
The virtue of a coward is suspicion.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
The losing side is full of suspicion.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
All kinds of evil flourish in suspicion. It is a perpetual breeder of the qualities that instantly work for evil, including secrecy and resentment.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Being Suspicious", Reactions and Other Essays
Suspicion is a strange shadow, that every action of another will cast upon our minds.
BP. HOPKINS
A Cyclopaedia of Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths
All your nights are sleepless
Poison arrows
To ruin your tomorrows
Below suspicion
Cafes full of people dressed as spies
And all I know
Is guilt for being different
CHUMBAWAMBA
"Smalltown"
A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.
BELLA POLLEN
Midnight Cactus
A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does!
PAWAN MISHRA
Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Any statement that might arouse suspicion is always polished off with, "That's the honest God's truth," as if God had a vested interest in setting things straight.
LORAN SMITH
"Webb an example of modest athlete", LaGrange Daily News, June 22, 2017
Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just; it is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
HOSEA BALLOU
attributed, Treasury of Thought
It's a dangerous assumption and I know I shouldn't jump to conclusions, but it's always easier to pin suspicion on someone you dislike.
SUE GRAFTON
M is for Malice