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Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light. - Jane Porter 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) Rakes are more suspicious than honest men. - Samuel Richardson That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts. - Moslih Eddin (Muslih-un-Din) Saadi (Sadi) Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) See what a ready tongue suspicion hath! - William Shakespeare See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced. - William Shakespeare Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes. - William Shakespeare 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) I confess it is my nature's plague To spy into abuses; and, oft, my jealousy Shapes faults that are not. - William Shakespeare, Othello (III,iii) A dull head thinks of no better way to show himself wise, than by suspecting everything in his way. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) Open suspecting of others comes of secretly condemning ourselves. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. - Bishop Robert South It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of. - Leszczynski Stanislaus ("Stanislaus I") Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity. - Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine (Soimonoff) Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus) 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) There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau A woman of honor should not suspect another of things she would not do herself. - Marguerite de Valois Suspicion invites treachery. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Whoever is suspicious invites treason. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Displaying page 2 of 3 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3
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