Quotes of Sham - somelinesforyou

“ What is true is true, and what is false is false… ”

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“ This is the very false gallop of verses. - As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries. ”

- Thomas Paine

“ Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt. ”

- Charles Horace Mayo

“ If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. ”

- William A. Sunday

“ The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with. ”

- Joseph Brodsky

“ True glory strikes root, and even extends itself; all false pretensions fall as do flowers, nor can any feigned thing be lasting. ”

- Cicero

“ When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. ”

- Ernest Hemingway

“ The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. ”

- Jean Giraudoux

“ To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. ”

- Jacques Derrida

“ Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. ”

- George Meredith

“ I could get into bed with James Bond, then take my false leg off and it would really be a gun. ”

- Heather Mills

“ Elections in L.A. are so different. Here you've got politicians with phony smiles making false promises to voters with fake boobs and bad toupees. ”

- Jay Leno

“ He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an impostor. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ The false lapwynge, full of trecherye. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ Art is not imitation, but illusion. ”

- Charles Reade

“ High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretences to both. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ It's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. ”

- Matt Damon

“ It's quite disturbing, in an age of terror, to think that you can have people showing up with demonstrably false and fraudulent documents. ”

- David Harris

“ Ring out the false, ring in the true. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ You can't fake it when you're alone with God, you know. ”

- Jim Bakker

“ I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these? ”

- Carol Burnett

“ I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these? ”

- Carlo Brumat

“ Thanks to the nature and contents of this false indictment (the trial) has turned into a farce, pure and simple. However the amount of money is not insignificant. It is not a cheap farce. ”

- Slobodan Milosevic

“ The whole is the false. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity. ”

- Vivien Leigh

“ Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic. ”

- Keanu Reeves
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