SUSPICION QUOTES IV

quotations about suspicion

From the moment that your suspicions are aroused, you ought to be like a man mounted on a tricky horse, who always watches the ears of the beast, in fear of being thrown from the saddle.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Physiology of Marriage

Tags: Honoré de Balzac


Suspicion kisses you when I do
Though I've never let you know
I only wish you knew what I knew
So we could both enjoy the show

RICHARD MARX

"Suspicion"


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


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

Tags: Hosea Ballou


We are being sacrificed by our own suspicions
We are being sodomized by repetitions

SERJ TANKIAN

"Butterfly"


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"


A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.

BELLA POLLEN

Midnight Cactus


There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

Tags: George Eliot


Suspicion very rarely occupies the bosom of innocence.

JOSEPH BARTLETT

Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things


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

Tags: Edward Young


Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

GOSHO AOYAMA

Meitantei Konan


Mistrust and mutual suspicion always threaten serenity.

POPE FRANCIS

"Pope: Christ came to help us fulfill the commandments' substance", CRUX, February 13, 2017


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


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

Treasury of Thought

Tags: Hosea Ballou


The losing side is full of suspicion.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

Tags: Publilius Syrus


Suspicion aint' proof.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

Tags: Ken Alstad


He who suspects is seldom at fault.

MATHURIN REGNIER

attributed, Day's Collacon


A widespread meticulous consistency causes a bigger suspicion than the most obvious inconsistency does!

PAWAN MISHRA

Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy


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"


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"