Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. — Adelbert von Chamisso Copy Share Image
Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
We perceive no charms that are not sharpened, puffed out, and inflated by artifice. Those which glide along naturally and simply easily… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world,… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Ponder and deliberate before you make your move. He will conquer who has learned the artifice of deviation. Such is the art… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It was the peculiar artifice of Habit not to suffer her power to be felt at first. Those whom she led, she… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“All too often, we mask truth in artifice, concealing ourselves for fear of losing the ones we love or prolonging a deception… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“Adornment, exoticism, affectation are all willed decadent strategies meant to pervert the texts they made. Decadent texts often live in their descriptive… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
To the extent that I've ever understood postmodernism - and I'm sure there are people out there who do, but I'm not… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
Femininity in general is seen as frivolous. People often say feminine people are doing “the most”, meaning that to don a dress,… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would… — Simon Greenleaf Copy Share Image
Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
An over-scrupulous jealousy of danger to the rights of the people, which is more commonly the fault of the head than of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The last thing I want is that sense of artifice - rather I want the reader drawn into the story and lost… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech,… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
Being blond is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The girl in the mirror caught my eye briefly...It is an uncanny feeling, that rare occasion when one catches a glimpse of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
In the midst of the disguises and artifices that reign among men, it is only attention and vigilance that can save us… — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet Copy Share Image
Everything you do is so personal. In the end, it doesn't matter so much if you write about your own life or… — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Thou knowest not the endless artifices of a court. Invented crimes are often there alleged; but real ones, and those especially, which… — Vittorio Alfieri Copy Share Image
Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I did plays in college, and I have half of a play. But I'm kind of stuck. I keep revisiting it so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“He hadn't lied. He honestly liked her house, for the same reasons he was drawn to the woman. There was no artifice… — Ruth Wind Copy Share Image
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
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