Suspicious Quotes

• The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Evil, Doubt

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

  Samuel Johnson

  Suspicion

  Samuel Johnson (1797). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, Etc. (A New Edition, Being the Ninth.).”, p.254

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

  Lu Xun

  Time, Faults, Conclusion

  40 Copy quote

• When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them.

  Aldous Huxley

  People, Brave New World Happiness

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

  H. L. Mencken

  Respect, Self, Personality

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing". Book edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

  B. C. Forbes

  Cheating, Deception, Cheated On

  22 Copy quote

• Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

  Louis C. K.

  Fall, Thinking, Issues

  7 Copy quote

• Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Media, Editors

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private”, p.92

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.

  Andy Rooney

  Smart, Believe, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Troll

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Happiness, Enemy, Literature

  Joseph Addison (1793). “A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments”, p.378

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Writing, Plagiarism, Stolen

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3106, Delphi Classics

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Squirrels, Earth Day

  55 Copy quote

• As man reaches out toward the twenty-first century, he will learn to be suspicious of all ideas that are not formulated so that they can be tested by observation.  He will realize that the history of human thought shows that the ideas of which we are surest are the ones we most need to test.  He will realize that his common sense only mirrors his training and experience.  What seems natural and right to him is usually a reflection of the conditions under which he spent his first decade of life.

  Jacque Fresco

  Reflection, Men, Ideas

  30 Copy quote

• Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Battlefield of the Mind: Winning the Battle in Your Mind". Book by Joyce Meyer, 1995.

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Twas the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.

  Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury

  Sage, Examination, Tests

  "Characteristics", Letter Concerning Enthusiasm, Part I. Sect. V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 673-74, 1922.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm always a person that's a little suspicious of anything that's been converted in post, but if I know that it's been originated, either in live-action or animation, I'm intrigued.

  Dean DeBlois

  Littles, Action, Animation

  Source: collider.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best men are the least suspicious of fraudulent purposes.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Atheism, Purpose

  Thomas Hobbes, Richard Tuck (1996). “Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised Student Edition”, p.473, Cambridge University Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.

  Miranda Lambert

  Shoulders, Raised

  5 Copy quote

• The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

  George R. R. Martin

  Needs, Looks, Innocent

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.933, Bantam

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I should be suspicious of what I want.

  Rumi

  Want, Should

  7 Copy quote

• In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

  Rachel Kushner

  Real, Ideas, World

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

  George R. R. Martin

  Song, Laughter, Grief

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1284, Bantam

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

  Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Taken, Ideas, Care

  67 Copy quote

• Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

  Henry James

  Dog, Art, Confusion

  The Spoils of Poynton preface (1909)

  17 Copy quote

  Show source