Suspicion Quotes - Page 2

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

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Littles, Knows

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Suspicion'

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• We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

  Tennessee Williams

  Truth, Betrayal, Defense

  Camino Real (1953).

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• The losing side is full of suspicion.

  Publilius Syrus

  Sides, Losing

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

  Thomas Paine

  Weed, Together, Persecution

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

  Julius Caesar

  Wife, Caesar's Wife

  Oral tradition based on Plutarch 'Parallel Lives' 'Julius Caesar' ch. 10, sect. 9

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• A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.

  Ben Jonson

  House, Black, Brain

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Finding The One, Doubt, Literature

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.116, Penguin

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• 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.

  Demosthenes

  Trust, Wise, Tyrants

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• I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sports, Taken, Healthy

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

  Horace

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

  Jean Racine

  Fruit, Second Marriage, Disagreeable

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 771-72, Phèdre, II. 5, 1922.

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• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Hands, Firsts

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• 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.

  Plutarch

  Wife, Done, Bed

  Plutarch (1872). “Plutarch's Lives”, p.606

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• 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.

  Plutarch

  Wife, Trials, Cases

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

  George Eliot

  Infidelity, Deception, Deceit

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.1538, Delphi Classics

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• Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Useless

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.132

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• Better confide and be deceiv'd,
  A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
  Than once accuse the innocent,
  Or let suspicion mar repose.

  Frances Sargent Osgood

  Mars, Innocent, Thousand

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• Suspicion is most often useless pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Useless, Uselessness

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• An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

  Jane Austen

  Power, Done, Literature

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.305, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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

  Nathalie Sarraute

  Morbid, Reactions, Equilibrium

  Nathalie Sarraute (1990). “The age of suspicion: essays on the novel”, George Braziller

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• Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.

  Plutarch

  Wife, Caesar's Wife, Should

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• Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Rakes, Honest

  Samuel Richardson (1751). “Letters and passages restored from the original manuscripts of the History of Clarissa. To which is subjoined, a collection of such of the moral and instructive sentiments ... contained in the History, as are presumed to be of general use and service ... Published for the sake of doing justice to the purchasers of the first two editions of that work”, p.259

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• Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.

  Jane Porter

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.210

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• One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

  William Shakespeare

  Smile, War, Hamlet And Ophelia

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 105

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• All seems infected that th' infected spy,
  As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

  Alexander Pope

  Eye, Yellow, Spy

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 558

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