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Suspicious Quotes

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
Aldous Huxley quote: "When people are suspicious with you, you start being..."
When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them. Aldous Huxley
Lu Xun quote: "To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time..."
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. Lu Xun
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
I notice a whiff of Swift in some of my notes. I too am a desponder in my nature, an uneasy, peevish, and suspicious man, although I have my moments of volatility and fou rire. Vladimir Nabokov
Liza had a finely developed sense of sin Idleness was a sin, and card playing, which was a kind of idleness to her. She was suspicious of fun whether it involved dancing or singing or even laughter. She felt that people having a good time were wide open to the devil. And this was a shame, for Samuel was a laughing man, but I guess Samuel was wide open to the devil. His wife protected him whenever she could. John Steinbeck
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public Adam Smith
Hal Borland quote: "You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of..."
You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet Hal Borland
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious..."
Just for the record, the weather today is partly suspicious with chances of betrayal. Chuck Palahniuk
George R. R. Martin quote: "The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent...."
The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware. George R. R. Martin
To hell with God damned "L'Amour." It always causes far more trouble than it is worth. Don't run after it. Don't court it. Keep it waiting off stage until you're good and ready for it and even then treat it with the suspicious disdain that it deserves... Noel Coward
Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds... Leigh Hunt
Mahad had done wrong, but I had been unforgivably trusting, which meant I was fatally dense. I had failed to be suspicious. I deserved my grandma's scorn. I was not allowed to talk back to Grandma, and Ma said nothing to defend me. I could only sob, and seethe. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The enemy—the indispensible devil of every mass movement—is omnipresent. He plots both outside and inside the ranks of the faithful. It is his voice that speaks through the mouth of the dissenter, and the deviationists are his stooges. If anything goes wrong within the movement, it is his doing. It is the sacred duty of the true believer to be suspicious. He must be constantly on the lookout for saboteurs, spies and traitors. Eric Hoffer
Terry Prachett quote: "Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat..."
Raising the flag and singing the anthem are, while somewhat suspicious, not in themselves acts of treason. Terry Prachett

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