Quotes
Quotes about Suspicion
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.
We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from their sense of inadequacy and impotence. We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.
Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]
As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."
Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."
Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importuns Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs.]
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
The losing side is full of suspicion. [Lat., Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio.]
I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
