Suspicion Quotes

DEMOCRACY n The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. (E. B. White)
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion. View quote
Julius Caesar
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. View quote
Edmund Burke
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. View quote
Jane Austen
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. View quote
William Shakespeare
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence Cannot imagine being under suspicion. View quote
Pierre Corneille
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. View quote
John Updike
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion. View quote
Livy
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end. View quote
Max Beerbohm
We see in the 20th Century an unfortunate trench warfare, in which psychoanalysis, in a struggle against the internalized compulsion and superstition of a particular doctrine, has expressed itself atheistically. By contrast, theology is not merely under suspicion of talking soullessly about God. Both theology and psychology, in striving for human health, need one another like the right and the left hand. (Eugen Drewermann)
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. View quote
Kin Hubbard
The fundamental problem for Republicans when it comes to the environment is that whatever you say is viewed through the prism of suspicion. View quote
Frank Luntz
Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. View quote
Helen Fisher
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. View quote
Elihu Root
Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. View quote
Christopher Lasch
Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before. View quote
Ozzy Osbourne
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. View quote
Petrarch
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. (J. B. S. Haldane)
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion. View quote
William R. Alger
I am inclined to say that the personal attendance and intervention of women in election proceedings, even apart from any suspicion of the wider objects of many of the promoters of the present movement, would be a practical evil not only of the gravest, but even of an intolerable character. View quote
William Ewart Gladstone
Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest. View quote
Ann Radcliffe
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anybody bow down or stand up to Him. I have often a suspicion God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished. View quote
Rebecca West