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The less we know the more we suspect. (Quote by - H. W. Shaw)

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. (Quote by - Horace)

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness. (Quote by - Hosea Ballou)

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. (Quote by - Demosthenes)

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)

The losing side is full of suspicion. (Quote by - Syrus)

All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself. (Quote by - Marguerite De Valois)

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Would he were fatter! But I fear him not. Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already. (Quote by - Cicero)

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. (Quote by - Thomas Payne)

Suspicion follows close on mistrust. (Quote by - Ephraim Gotthold Lessing)

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. (Quote by - Plutarch)

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious. (Quote by - B C Forbes)

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. (Quote by - Terence)

What the devil was he doing in this galley? (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere)

All persons as they become less prosperous, are the more suspicious. They take everything as an affront; and from their conscious weakness, presume that they are neglected. (Quote by - Terence)

I have a strong suspicion . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep. (Quote by - Zora Neale Hurston)

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Racine)

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