#suspicion

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#greet #important #less #official #ordinary

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another. ↗

— Jane Porter

#better #defects #dislike #found #heard

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#cause #dante #eyes #god #ground

I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me. ↗

— George Murray

#been #considered #doing #entertained #even

No, I mean why are you here? You just happen to be at the same place I am? The girl who believes in coincidence always ends up dead, Devin. ↗

— Jocelyn Davies

#beauty

After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#aide #association #because #becoming #being

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#cannot #defend #how #i #imagine

My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough. ↗

— Noel Coward

#certainly #deal #enough #good #good deal

Perhaps that suspicion of fraud enhances the flavor. ↗

— C. S. Forester

#flavor #fraud #perhaps #suspicion

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ↗