Quotes of Suspect - somelinesforyou

“ Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt. ”

- Jane Addams

“ When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. ”

- Joseph Roux

“ You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect. ”

- Edwin Meese

“ Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ”

- Steven Wright

“ Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. ”

- Theodore Parker

“ The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. ”

- Cousin Woodman

“ My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. ”

- Jean Rostand

“ While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art. ”

- Ian Hornak

“ He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure. ”

- J. C. Hare

“ A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you — you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ Candid and generous and just, boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected … for who but learns in riper years, that man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected? ”

- William Cowper

“ Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day without suspecting our abode until we drive away. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ He that is of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. ”

- Anne Sullivan

“ I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say. ”

- Friedrich Wasiman

“ I suspect that American workers have come to lack a work ethic. They do not live by the sweat of their brow. ”

- Kiichi Miyazawa

“ I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. ”

- Vaclav Havel

“ If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. ”

- Desiderius Erasmus

“ Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em. ”

- Bryan Waller Proctor

“ Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ”

- John Locke

“ Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. ”

- Sir Philip Sidney
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