Doubtful

Famous quotes containing the word doubtful:

    A doubtful choice, of these three which to crave,
    A kingdom, or a cottage, or a grave.
    Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (1550–1604)

    The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself; all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
    Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)