Doubtful Quotes

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.

They say of me, and so they should, It's doubtful if I come to good.

I would love to go on MasterChef. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

I am doubtful that there will be any sort of real coherence of Muslim societies into a single political system run by an elected or non-elected group of leaders.

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

It is doubtful we can be Christian in anything unless we are Christian in everything.

A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.

Be not held back by fear's insane insistence that sureness lies in doubt. I am not doubtful, but certain. The miracle is always there. I will see them in the light.

A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man.

It is doubtful that anyone has contributed more in a lifetime to the overall coverage of cricket.

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

The Poet's leaves are gathered one by one, In the slow process of the doubtful years.

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.

For a brief, weird minute I felt like Dorothy in Oz, walking down the street with Terric the doubtful, Shame the brainless, and heartless Zay.

America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

It is clear enough by now to most people that the camera never lies is a foolish saying. Yet it is doubtful whether most people realize how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is.

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?

South Africa is the only country in the world who gives AZT to health workers for needle-stick injuries. It's very doubtful that we're doing the right thing.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Today and over the foreseeable future,traditional capitalism throughout most of the world has been thrown on a defensive from which it is doubtful that it can never recover.

Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything.

Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

It has been thought that the people are not competent electors of judges learned in the law. But I do not know this to be true, and, if doubtful, we should follow principle.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

... pure honesty is a doubtful quality; it means often lack of imagination.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.

If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer.