quotations about suspicion
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
From the moment that your suspicions are aroused, you ought to be like a man mounted on a tricky horse, who always watches the ears of the beast, in fear of being thrown from the saddle.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Physiology of Marriage
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
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
We are being sacrificed by our own suspicions
We are being sodomized by repetitions
SERJ TANKIAN
"Butterfly"
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
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.
GOSHO AOYAMA
Meitantei Konan
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"
I guess I showed her
Once again I've been burned
My suspicion's been confirmed
I saw her having lunch
With some new guy
I walked up and said, "Goodbye"
She said, "Wait, can we talk tonight?"
I guess I showed her
ROBERT CRAY
"I Guess I Showed Her"
The losing side is full of suspicion.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
Suspicion very rarely occupies the bosom of innocence.
JOSEPH BARTLETT
Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things
Suspicion aint' proof.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does!
PAWAN MISHRA
Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
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
It becomes all good men and women to be on their guard, and keep even the suspicion of guilt away.
PLAUTUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
He who suspects is seldom at fault.
MATHURIN REGNIER
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Treasury of Thought
He answered like a sick man getting out of bed
Suspicion and thirst curiosity and dread
The blindness in control
Freeze the fatal bullet
As we're falling through a hole in time
SAM PHILLIPS
"Hole in Time"
The virtue of a coward is suspicion.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum