Suspicion invites treachery. [ Voltaire ]
The virtue of a coward is suspicion. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [ Lessing ]
Suspicion is the bane of friendship. [ Petrarch ]
The losing side is full of suspicion. [ Syrus ]
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion. [ W. R. Alger ]
Whoever is suspicious incites treason. [ Voltaire ]
See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! [ William Shakespeare ]
Suspicion is very often a useless pain. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. [ Plut ]
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. [ William Shakespeare ]
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. [ William Shakespeare ]
Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]
Rakes are more suspicious than honest men. [ Richardson ]
Suspicion is the poison of true friendship. [ Augustine ]
Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. [ Mme. Swetchine ]
Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side. [ Publius Syrus ]
Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems. [ Milton ]
At the gate which suspicion enters, love goes out. [ Proverb ]
Too much asseveration is a good ground of suspicion. [ Proverb ]
Suspicion is no less an enemy to virtue than to happiness. [ Johnson ]
Suspicion may be no fault, but shewing it may be a great one. [ Proverb ]
A heart once poisoned by suspicion has no longer room for love. [ Kotzebue ]
Suspicion is as great an enemy to wisdom as too much credulity. [ Thomas Fuller ]
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten. [ George Eliot ]
It is not virtuous women who are so ready to report suspicion of their sisters. [ Mme. de Krudener ]
That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. [ Saadi ]
Suspicion is a heavy armour, and with its own weight impedes more than protects. [ Byron ]
Don't seem to be on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching. [ George Eliot ]
A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. [ Marguerite de Valois ]
All seems infected that the infected spy, and all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [ Pope ]
Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together. [ Thomas Paine ]
We must remember how apt man is to extremes - rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. [ Alex. Dumas ]
I never yet heard man or woman much abused, that I was not inclined to think the better of them; and to transfer any suspicion or dislike to the person who appeared to take delight in pointing out the defects of a fellow-creature. [ Jane Porter ]
Method, we are aware, is an essential ingredient in every discourse designed for the instruction of mankind; but it ought never to force itself on the attention as an object - never appear to be an end instead of an instrument; or beget a suspicion of the sentiments being introduced for the sake of the method, not the method for the sentiments. [ Robert Hall ]
A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar; the case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor toward the latter part of life. [ Shenstone ]