Quotes with suspect

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  • Bryan Waller Proctor Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.
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  • Susan Sontag Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Julius Charles Hare Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbour for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
    Julius Charles Hare
    English theological writer (1795 - 1855)
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  • J. C. Hare Never put much confidence in such, as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel Scott, as you and I both know, a popular move these days is to make a titillating charge and then have the media create the frenzy. Given Kenneth Starr's track record, should we suspect that he's trying to do with innuendo that which he has been unable to do with evidence?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • C. S. Lewis Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Hitopadesa The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Auguste Rodin There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Henry David Thoreau There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Francis Bacon There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Mann There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Vaclav Havel There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Ben Jonson They that know no evil will suspect none.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Tacitus Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.
    The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Ali Hosseini-Khamenei We seriously suspect the agents of the Americans and Israelis in conducting such horrendous terrorist acts and cannot believe the people who kidnap Philippines nationals, for instance, or behead U.S. nationals are Muslims.
    Ali Hosseini-Khamenei
    Iranian ayatollah
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