quotations about suspicion
The virtue of a coward is suspicion.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion.
JASPER FFORDE
Shades of Grey
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
Never put too much confidence in such as put no confidence in others; a man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself; as to the pure, all things are pure.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE
Guesses at Truth
Suspicion is a poison that can take effect without warning, turning the most level-headed men into irrational fools.
ANONYMOUS
"My Cousin Rachel a handsome adaptation of du Maurier mystery", The Irish News, June 6, 2017
Suspicion always lies in the eye of the beholder.
AVA KOFMAN
"Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos 'To Anticipate Criminal Activity'", The Intercept, April 30, 2017
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.
HORACE
Epistles
Suspicion torments my heart
Suspicion keeps us apart
Suspicion why torture me?
ELVIS PRESLEY
"Suspicion"
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING
Nathan der Weise