Suspect Quotes

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Oscar Wilde

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
Patrick Henry

Nothing, Jealous, Give

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

Finding, Paid, Suspicion

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

Rule, Finding, Paid

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Steven Wright

While, Curiosity, Cat

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

Government, Sense, Universe

I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism.
Barack Obama

American, British, Greek

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
J. D. Salinger

Happy, Paranoid, Reverse

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Him, Others, Harder

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
Gore Vidal

Age, True, Matter

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Others, Crimes

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

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
Mason Cooley

Moral, Higher, Speaker

I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
John Henrik Clarke

Age, History, School

A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
Augustus Hare

Evil, Looking, Himself

Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.
Donald Rumsfeld

Key, Issue, Disagree

In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family.
Alfred Adler

Life, Family, Patient

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius Erasmus

Fear, Wisdom, Worst

A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
Dag Hammarskjold

Alone, Integrity, Moment

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.
Noel Coward

May, Jesus, Works

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin

Nature, Give, Understand

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
Richard M. Nixon

Different, Public, President

There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne Barr

Mother, Woman, Hell

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm

Done, Worth, Wide

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
Joe Biden

Become, Emotion, Style

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Off, Times, Behind

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.
Marilyn vos Savant

Sex, Emotional, Problems

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
Jean Racine

Heart, Cannot, Others

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.
Stephen Fry

Love, Children, English

I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me.
Henri Matisse

Light, Anyone, Tried

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