#Suspicion Quotes

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

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”

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

“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.”

“My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.”

“Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.”

“See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!”

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

“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?”

“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.”

“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!”

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

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

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

“A prince should suspect everything.”

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

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

“Wary, as if surrounded by strangers.”

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

“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.”

“Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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