Quotes about Suspicion

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

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

When you grow suspicious of a person and begin a system of espionage upon him, your punishment will be that you will find your suspicions true.

The latter stage is apt to end in cynicism as we wonder what the one who praises really wants.

Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.

Too good to be true, I will think. Too good for this earth. Good, be thou my evil.

Toxic words corrupt and defile the mind. There are words of suspicion, words of bitterness, and words of death.

It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them

for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it.

A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there was a loud and authoritative tap.

Sin does not only still abide in us, but is still acting, still laboring to bring forth the deeds of the flesh. When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be the most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even where there is least suspicion.

While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.