Suspicion quotes
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To this very day, I do not know what he (Hitler) thought or knew or really wanted. I only knew my own thoughts and suspicions.
-- Alfred Jodl -
Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor.
-- C. S. Forester -
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.
-- Christopher Marlowe -
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The only new ideas that are not subject to our skepticism or suspicion are our own.
-- Cullen Hightower -
Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.
-- E. V. Lucas -
When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.
-- Emily Post -
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Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.
-- Frances Sargent Osgood -
Ambition and suspicion always go together.
-- Georg C. Lichtenberg -
Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.
-- George Eliot -
English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.
-- George Mikes -
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Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'
-- Guy Scott -
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
-- Iain Banks -
He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse.
-- Ian Mcewan -
As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.
-- Jay Sekulow -
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.
-- Jean Racine -
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Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.
-- Jerry Hall -
I have a sneaking suspicion that all religions lead to the same place, a very unified place.
-- Jewel -
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
-- Julius Caesar -
There's no end to suspicion once you get going.
-- Koushun Takami -
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I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it.
-- Mark Hamill -
That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
-- Oswald Chambers -
I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily.
-- Peter Grimwade -
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As human beings, we always have resistance against things that are different and there's always suspicion.
-- Peter Jackson -
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
-- Petrarch -
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.
-- Plutarch -
Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.
-- Preston Manning -
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The losing side is full of suspicion.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
-- Ralph Steadman -
Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.
-- Richard Dooling -
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
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Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.
-- Stanisław I Leszczyński -
Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.
-- Thomas Paine -
You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.
-- Toby Jones -
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Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.
-- Walter Savage Landor -
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
-- William Rounseville Alger -
A fellow who is always declaring that he's no fool, usually has his suspicions.
-- Wilson Mizner -
Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.
-- Austin O'Malley -
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The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.
-- Babatunde Fashola -
I don't think religious profiling or ethnic profiling is permissible, period. That is using religion or ethnicity as a proxy for suspicion. It just doesn't make any sense.
-- David D. Cole -
I have a sneaking suspicion that leading an examined life and being really tan aren't consistent with one another.
-- Dov Davidoff -
I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
-- Samantha Bond -
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Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
-- Alvin Adams
