suspicion quotes

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

It’s one of the few regrets of my presidency – that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There’s no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I’ll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

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.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

Caesar’s wife must be above suspicion.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

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.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

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

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

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.