Quotes with suspicious

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  • Joseph Addison 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
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Gertrude Stein 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
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Bono Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems - from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Andrew Cohen I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Adrienne Clarkson Sometimes we read or hear too much news that makes us fearful or suspicious of others. We can forget that most of the people that we know, or at least encounter regularly, are decent and friendly.
    Adrienne Clarkson
    Hong Kong-born Canadian journalist and stateswoman (1939 - )
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  • Jean Rostand The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Billy Collins The public is probably more suspicious of poets than women, and maybe for good reason.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Billy Corgan There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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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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  • William S. Burroughs They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Plato Too much attention to health is a hindrance to learning, to invention, and to studies of any kind, for we are always feeling suspicious shootings and swimmings in our heads, and we are prone to blame studies from them.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • William Hazlitt Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
    Table-Talk (1824)
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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