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Quoth Sidrophel, If you suppose,
Sir Knight, that I am one of those,
I might suspect, and take th' alarm,
You bus'ness is but to inform;
But if it be, 'tis ne'er the near,
You have a wrong sow by the ear.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 575)
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Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and
watch you, as they have done already.
[Lat., Multorum te etiam oculi et aures non sentientem, sicuti
adhuc fecerunt, speculabuntur atque custodient.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Orationes In Catilinam (I, 2)
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The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the
kite the covered hook.
[Lat., Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque
Suspectos laqueos, et opertum milvius hamum.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Source: Epistles (I, 16, 50)
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Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
[Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.]
Author: Ephraim Gotthold Lessing
Source: Nathan der Weise (V, 8)
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What the devil was he doing in this galley?
[Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?]
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
Source: Fourberies de Scapin (act II, 11)
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As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony
against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any
injury done to his bed. He only said, "He had divorced Pompeia
because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a
crime, but of the very suspicion of it."
Author: Plutarch
Source: Life of Cicero
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Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the
trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and
Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he
replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear
even of suspicion."
Author: Plutarch
Source: Life of Julius Caesar
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All seems infected that the infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Criticism (l. 568)
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Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second
marriage.
[Lat., Les soupcons importuns
Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Racine
Source: Phedre (II, 5)
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All is not well.
I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!
Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Julius Caesar (Caesar at I, ii)
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Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Richard, Duke of Gloucester at V, vi)
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The losing side is full of suspicion.
[Lat., Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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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.
[Lat., Omnes quibus res sunt minus secundae magis sunt, nescio
quomodo,
Suspiciosi; ad contumeliam omnia accipiunt magis;
Propter suam impotentiam se credunt negligi.]
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Adelphi (IV, 3, 14)
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To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time
without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
Author: Terence (Publius Terentius Afer)
Source: Adelphi (IV, 3, 14)
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
Author: B C Forbes
Source: None
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I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.
Author: Zora Neale Hurston
Source: None
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There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.
Author: Demosthenes
Source: None
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
Author: Samuel Johnson
Source: None
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Suspicion follows close on mistrust.
Author: Gotthold Lessing
Source: None
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
Author: Hosea Ballou
Source: None
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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.
Author: Thomas Payne
Source: None
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The less we know the more we suspect.
Author: Josh Billings
Source: None
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A woman of honor should not expect of others things she would not do herself.
Author: Marguerite De Valois
Source: None
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None
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