quotations about suspicion
Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom; surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed.
EBERHARD AUGUST WILHELM ZIMMERMAN
attributed, Day's Collacon
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"
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
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
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
The losing side is full of suspicion.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
Maxims
The virtue of a coward is suspicion.
GEORGE HERBERT
Jacula Prudentum
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
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
He who suspects is seldom at fault.
MATHURIN REGNIER
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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"
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"
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
A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does!
PAWAN MISHRA
Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
Suspicion very rarely occupies the bosom of innocence.
JOSEPH BARTLETT
Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things
We are being sacrificed by our own suspicions
We are being sodomized by repetitions
SERJ TANKIAN
"Butterfly"
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