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People who are in love suspect nothing or everything. - Honore de Balzac 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. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 575) 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.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), Orationes In Catilinam (I, 2) 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.] - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Epistles (I, 16, 50) 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 become corrupt. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [Ger., Argwohnen folgt auf Misstrauen.] - Ephraim Gotthold Lessing, Nathan der Weise (V, 8) Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated. - Abraham Lincoln What the devil was he doing in this galley? [Fr., Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Fourberies de Scapin (act II, 11) 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." - Plutarch, Life of Cicero 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." - Plutarch, Life of Julius Caesar All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism (l. 568) Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importuns Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs.] - Jean Baptiste Racine, Phedre (II, 5) 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. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at I, ii) 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. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Caesar at I, ii) Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Richard, Duke of Gloucester at V, vi) Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) The losing side is full of suspicion. [Lat., Ad tristem partem strenua est suspicio.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims 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.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Adelphi (IV, 3, 14) We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect. - Lu Xun
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