Suspicious Quotes

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Married, Looks

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. Mencken

Feeling, Secure

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

Mind, Evil, Person

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.

Someone, Everything, Same

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, Less

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
Gertrude Stein

Friendly, Deals, Foreigner

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

Challenge, Bird, Tree

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.
Keith Richards

Music, Marriage, Unhappy

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

Time, Coming, Fault

Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
John le Carre

Truth, Between, Until

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
Billy Corgan

Show, Grand, Mighty

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
David Byrne

Business, Community, Artists

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!
Tom Baker

Sometimes, Four, Five

Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives.
John Podhoretz

Long, Matter, Once

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
Anthony Hopkins

Sunrise, Before, Whole

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?
Tony Gilroy

Life, Love, Work

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
B. C. Forbes

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Alfred North Whitehead

Joke, Religious, Truly

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

Looking, Shoulder, Raised

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Thomas Mann

Music, Nature, Saying

I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.
Robert Duvall

Live, Country, Door

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Jean Rostand

Power, Vocation

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.
Dan Rather

Time, Good, Dangerous

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
Eugene Ionesco

Truths, Collective

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates.
Arthur Smith

Time, Ignorance, Give

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.
Eric Liu

Power, Best, Words

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
Manuel Puig

Rock, Name, Names

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

Become, Nobody, Above

Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
Benjamin Spock

Rude, Idea, Police

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