Quotes About Doubt

The basis of every scandal is immoral certainty.

But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.

Cecily: - La explicación parece satisfactoria, ¿no? Gwendolen: - Sí, siempre que usted le crea. Cecily: - No le creo, pero eso no afecta la belleza de su respuesta

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

He was afraid of certainty.

Ah! then it must be an illusion. The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

very essence of romance is uncertainty.  If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty

Optimism is cowardice .

And besides, we lovers fear everything

We believe slowly when belief brings pain.

fear feeds fear when knowledge fails

People are slow to claim confidence in undertakings of magnitude.

I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls.

It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.

You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.

ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over?

Ohmygod. Did hell just freeze over? - Zoey Redbird when Aphrodite LaFonte tells her parents that Zoey deserves to be leader of the Dark Daughters

Did you just curse? Isn't 'hell' - she air quoted - a cursed word? How 'bout you go straight there and see?

could have almost convinced myself that everything was normal. But almost can be a really big word.

It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a twitter at the prospect of putting it into practical effect. I explained this to Jeeves, and he said much the same thing had bothered Hamlet.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

She gave me another of those long keen looks, and I could see that she was again asking herself if her favourite nephew wasn't steeped to the tonsils in the juice of the grape.