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Suspicion: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose, Sir Knight, that I am one of those, I might suspect, and take th' alarm, Your bus'ness is but to inform; But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near, You have a wrong sow by the ear.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III. L. 575.

Cæsar's wife should be above suspicion.— PLUTARCH — Life of Cæsar. Ch. X.

All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. L. 568.

All is not well; I doubt some foul play.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 255.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act V. Sc. 6. L. 11.

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. Julius Cæsar. Act I. Sc. 2. L.

Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque Suspectos laqueos, et opertum milvius hamum. The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 16. 50.

Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio. The losing side is full of suspicion.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundæ magis sunt, nescio quomodo, Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis; Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi. 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.— TERENCE — Adelphi. IV. 3. 14.

Les soupçons importuns Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs. Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. C.— RACINE — Phèdre. II. 5.

Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen. Suspicion follows close on mistrust.— LESSING — Nathan der Weise. V. 8.