Suspicion Quotes

I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

When we cannot stand certain people, we try to have suspicions about them.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

O, what damned minutes tells he o'erWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!

My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.

Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.

The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

If your mental attitude is positive, even when threats abound, you won’t lose your inner peace. On the other hand, if your mind is negative, marked by fear, suspicion and feelings of helplessness, even among your best friends, in a pleasant atmosphere and comfortable surroundings, you won’t be happy.

What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Affection is important because it counters anger, hatred and suspicion that can prevent our minds from functioning clearly.

A prince should suspect everything.

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;Speak and look back, and pry on every side,Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw,Intending deep suspicion.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath!He that but fears the thing he would not know,Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,That what he feared is chanced.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.

Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?

My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it.

Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!