We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than… — Robert Duvall Copy Share Image
The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid, of Plato & Cicero, which all men ought to contemn, are set up… — William Blake Copy Share Image
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If some hole does not possess striking individuality through some gift of nature, it must be given as much as possible artificially,… — A. W. Tillinghast Copy Share Image
I am so delighted when I get to see a really good movie. In that experience the artifice of movie making, the… — Jay Cassidy Copy Share Image
When I was younger I was attracted to people who had that kind of artifice - people who were incredibly polished and… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
It was the maxim, I think, of Alphonsus of Aragon, that dead counsellors are safest. The grave puts an end to flattery… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“It was the general opinion of ancient nations, that the divinity alone was adequate to the important office of giving laws to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Life creeps slowly upward… When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood… — Jack London Copy Share Image
So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
I am commonly opposed to those who modestly assume the rank of champions of liberty, and make a very patriotic noise about… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
When I came to faith, I thought I would have to stop being an actor, because it's all about artifice and manipulation.… — Tamsin Greig Copy Share Image
Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets,… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Like most portrait photographers, I aim to record the instant the subject is not thinking about being photographed, striving to get beyond… — Martin Schoeller Copy Share Image
Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of the cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I… — Malika Oufkir Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The… — Dennis Etchison Copy Share Image
If you scratch through the deceitful artifice of contemporary photography, you'll find the real artifice underneath. — Douglas McCulloh Copy Share Image
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
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