Quotes of Counterfeit - somelinesforyou

“ The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ”

- Niels Bohr

“ I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals. ”

- Agnes Repplier

“ Eclecticism. Every truth is so true that any truth must be false. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ”

- Dr. Joyce Brothers

“ The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that you don't need love when you do or that you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ”

- Doris Lessing

“ His friends he loved. His direst earthly foes — cats — I believe he did but feign to hate. My hand will miss the insinuated nose, mine eyes the tail that wagg'd contempt at Fate. ”

- Sir William Watson

“ The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. ”

- James Agate

“ There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ”

- Marquis de Sade

“ You may imitate, but never counterfeit. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Imitation is the sincerest form of television. ”

- Fred Allen

“ I was raised to pretend. ”

- Anne Heche

“ Whoso boasteth himself of a false gift is like clouds and wind without rain. ”

- Bible

“ Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ No, misery makes sport to mock itself. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China. ”

- Jet Li

“ Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be. ”

- Kim Campbell

“ Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath. ”

- Oscar Levant

“ There was a lot of tabloid journalism about my supposed sex addiction. Bullshit. It's all bullshit. I mean, come on, I never pretended to be a saint. But give me a break. ”

- Michael Douglas

“ One of the misfortunes of our time is, that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. ”

- Louis Kronenberger

“ I don't pretend to be an ordinary housewife. ”

- Elizabeth Taylor

“ Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you. ”

- Bible

“ Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves; and it will go near to be thought so shortly. - Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the genuine tinsel underneath. ”

- Fred Allen

“ It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. ”

- Renata Adler

“ Brotherhood is not so wild a dream as those, who profit by postponing it, pretend. ”

- Eric Sevareid
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