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Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

Thomas Paine
Weed, Together, Suspicion
Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.224, Rowman & Littlefield

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god

Thom Yorke
Atheist, May, Suspicion

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

Walter Savage Landor
Want, Rooms, Suspicion
Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.194

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

Samuel Johnson
Pain, Useless, Suspicion
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Edmond Malone (1824). “The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished”, p.132

The losing side is full of suspicion.

Publilius Syrus
Sides, Losing, Suspicion
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves.

Philip Sidney
Doubt, Suspicion, Condemning
Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

Mason Cooley
Madness, Suspicion

As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.

Jay Sekulow
Jesus, Might, Suspicion

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

Francis Bacon
Men, Littles, Suspicion
'Essays' (1625) 'Of Suspicion'

Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.

Frances Sargent Osgood
Mars, Innocent, Suspicion

Like most people, most Westerners anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion I am immortal.

Mary Cantwell
People, Immortality, Suspicion
Mary Cantwell (1995). “Manhattan, When I Was Young”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Religion hides many mischiefs from suspicion.

Christopher Marlowe
Atheism, Suspicion, Mischief
Christopher Marlowe (2014). “Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

Once suspicion is aroused, every thing feeds it.

Amelia Barr
Distrust, Suspicion
Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.90, Litres

Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.

Preston Manning
Matter, Suspicion, Policy
"The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion.

Nelson Mandela
Judging, Suspicion, Suspicious
Twitter post from Apr 13, 2016

There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

Janet Morris
Destiny, Stranger, Suspicion
Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.241, Paradise Publishing

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

Guy Scott
Men, Who We Are, Suspicion
"Zambian vice-president: 'South Africans are backward'" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2013.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

George Mikes
Strong, Monsters, Suspicion
George Mikes (2016). “English Humour for Beginners”, p.7, Penguin UK

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes.

William Shakespeare
Eye, Stuck, Suspicion
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.317

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!

William Shakespeare
Tongue, Suspicion, Ready
William Shakespeare (1733). “The Second Part of Henry IV. Containing His Death and the Coronation of King Henry V.”, p.9

Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.

William Rounseville Alger
Mother, Ignorance, Suspicion

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions.

Toby Jones
Important, Suspicion, Premieres
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

Thomas Carlyle
Hunger, Suspicion, Indignation
Thomas Carlyle (1837). “Collected Works”, p.304

It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.

Stanisław I Leszczyński
Party, Self, Suspicion
François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.166

Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.

Sophie Swetchine
Dupes, Suspicion, Wells

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