Suspicion

Famous quotes containing the word suspicion:

“A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“The dullard’s envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.”
—Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)

“What ails it, intrinsically, is a dearth of intellectual audacity and of aesthetic passion. Running through it, and characterizing the work of almost every man and woman producing it, there is an unescapable suggestion of the old Puritan suspicion of the fine arts as such—of the doctrine that they offer fit asylum for good citizens only when some ulterior and superior purpose is carried into them.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)