Quotes of Suspicion - somelinesforyou

“ Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ 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

“ Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church. ”

- John Templeton

“ A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself. ”

- Marguerite de Valois

“ The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any. ”

- Russell Baker

“ Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. ”

- Hosea Ballou

“ Suspicion is most often useless pain. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ”

- Nathalie Sarraute

“ Suspicion is the cancer of friendship. ”

- Francesco Petrarch

“ Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will. ”

- James Monroe

“ We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ All seems infected that the infected spy, as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. ”

- Jean Racine

“ Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious. ”

- Carl Gustav Jung

“ Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ What you don't know doesn't hurt you; it's what you suspect that causes all the trouble. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

“ Never put too much confidence in such as put no confidence in others; 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. ”

- Julius Charles Hare

“ Surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. ”

- Pierre Corneille

“ It is as hard for the good to suspect evil as it is for the bad to suspect good. ”

- Cicero

“ They that know how to suspect, without exposing or hurting themselves, till honesty comes to be more in fashion, can never suspect too much. ”

- Aesop

“ 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

“ The suspected man and the really guilty seem to differ but slightly. ”

- Ausonius
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