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 pudendumand so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“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 (17991850)
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