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Suspicion Quotes

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The 10 Greatest Books of All Time”, p.444, Google Publishing

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

"Happy Maybe Day" by John Higgs, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2009.

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Oral tradition based on Plutarch 'Parallel Lives' 'Julius Caesar' ch. 10, sect. 9

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.

Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 771-72, Phèdre, II. 5, 1922.

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

Emily Post (1905). “Purple & Fine Linen: By Emily Post”

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

Thomas Paine (1822). “The Decline and Fall of the English System of Finance”, p.13

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Nathan der Weise", (pp. 771-772), 1922.

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

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

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

Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.26, New York Review of Books

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.74, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.