Skeptical

Famous quotes containing the word skeptical:

    Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this “truth,” a most welcome veil over a pudendum—and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Suicide , moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
    Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)