Top 178 Dubious Quotes & Sayings

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.

Gov. Romney's policies would be a clear departure from the dubious tactics of the Obama administration.

In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It’s a groundling thing.

Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.

I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.

He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.

If e-wallet providers are unregulated, dubious operators will easily manage to avoid audit trails and electronic finger-prints.

Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

Information obtained under dubious circumstances cannot play a role in legal proceedings in a constitutional state. But everything that's available must be taken into account in threat prevention.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.

I admire Peter Mandleson's chutzpah and the way he transformed the Labour party but not his dubious ideas about Europe and industrial policy.

This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.

If I see something dubious, say on a blog or a Web site, and I don't see it anywhere else, I'll just go right to the source and check it out.

Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world.

I'm not a pacifist by any measure, but I'm also fully aware that the reasons I might go to war could be very dubious.

We are neither prepared to deal with dubious companies nor have the mechanism for swift investigation. What's more we don't even have a culture, which imposes stringent, debilitating and deterrent punishment on wrong doers.

The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

Lampooning racism by reproducing brazenly racist imagery is a pretty dubious satirical tactic.

In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.

If I didn't want to fight Carl Froch then I wouldn't have invested so much time and money into appealing with the IBF over the dubious outcome of the first fight.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

Literature is one of those realms in which giving out prizes can seem not merely dubious but positively obtuse.

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

The Bible is full of dubious scientific impossibilities, from Jonah living inside a whale, to the sun standing still in the sky for Joshua.

I can be fairly optimistic, but I'm probably more a realist, I think. I mean, optimism's an interesting quality, isn't it, because I'm always slightly dubious as to what's behind it?

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.

Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost desecrate an instrument that for 500 years has been associated with God.

Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.

Indefinite plans get dubious results.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

All obvious moves look dubious in analysis after the game.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

I am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.

That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us.

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.

Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.

The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing for it.

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty.