SUSPICION QUOTES IV

quotations about suspicion

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


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"


The losing side is full of suspicion.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Maxims

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Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Suspicion aint' proof.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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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 a strange shadow, that every action of another will cast upon our minds.

BP. HOPKINS

A Cyclopaedia of Illustrations of Moral and Religious Truths


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

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

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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"


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

GOSHO AOYAMA

Meitantei Konan


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

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

PAWAN MISHRA

Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy


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

SERJ TANKIAN

"Butterfly"


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


He who suspects is seldom at fault.

MATHURIN REGNIER

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

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Suspicion very rarely occupies the bosom of innocence.

JOSEPH BARTLETT

Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things


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"


The virtue of a coward is suspicion.

GEORGE HERBERT

Jacula Prudentum

Tags: George Herbert


Any statement that might arouse suspicion is always polished off with, "That's the honest God's truth," as if God had a vested interest in setting things straight.

LORAN SMITH

"Webb an example of modest athlete", LaGrange Daily News, June 22, 2017