Best regard & suspicion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.”

Source: Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone

“The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.”

Regard Fishes Suspicion Hook Pits Cautious Hawks Snares Concealment

Author:Horace

“These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.”

“No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.”

Men Has Beens Dies Interest Objects He Man Words Of Wisdom Regard Sparks Suspicion Avoidance Aversion

Book:Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Edition

Source: Our Mutual Friend: Easyread Edition

“You English are like mad bulls... you see red everywhere! What on earth has come over you, to heap on us such suspicion as is unworthy of a great nation. I regard this as a personal insult... You make it uncommonly difficult for a man to remain friendly to England.”

Men Earth Nations Difficult Red England Regard Mad Insult Friendly Over You Suspicion Bulls Unworthy Great Nations Insults You

Author:Wilhelm II

“We will not regard any great power as necessarily right in a given dispute unless we are convinced of this, yet at the same time we will not view the great powers with perennial suspicion merely on account of their size, their wealth, or their nuclear potential. We will be friends of all, satellites of none.”

Given Wealth Views Accounts Regard Independent Size Convinced Nuclear Suspicion Disputes Great Power Satellites

Book:Speeches by Errol Barrow

Source: Speeches by Errol Barrow

“This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be crystal clear yourself. But there are problems here, and in this regard I unfortunately have a suspicion that this is just a way of getting votes and not a genuine desire to solve the problem.”

Way Problem Desire Order Fighting Taken Clear Gay Vote Regard Corruption Solve Genuine Gentleman Theme Suspicion Syria Crystals Fashionable Gay Rights

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I have come to regard with some suspicion those who claim that the Bible never troubles them. I can only assume this means they haven’t actually read it.”

Mean I Can Trouble Havens Claims Regard Assuming Suspicion

Book:A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'

Source: A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband 'Master'

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