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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.

Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already.

The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

What the devil was he doing in this galley?

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."

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."

All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage.

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.

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.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

The losing side is full of suspicion.

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.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

I have a strong suspicion . . . that much that passes for constant love is a golded- up moment walking in its sleep.

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.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.