Supposed

Famous quotes containing the word supposed:

“Such tricks hath strong imagination
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)

“Ladies and gentlemen are supposed to be looked after by others, like children and pets.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)