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
Modesty is the artifice of actors, similar to passion in call girls. — Jackie Gleason Copy Share Image
All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies. — Cardinal Richelieu 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
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices,… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable 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
I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The tricks and artifices of advertising are available to the seller of the better product no less than to the seller of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is… — David Hare Copy Share Image
So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
[Ed Lauter] was an actor's actor. I love working with that class of actor. You know, they come in, they do it,… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the… — Laurie Simmons Copy Share Image
Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
Among the numerous requisites that must concur to complete an author, few are of more importance than an early entrance into the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love,… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our very sexual identities are artifices and illusions, the result of a lifetime of striving. — John Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
“We're living amid an artificial reality, persuaded to believe it's real by astroturf engineered to look like grassroots.” — Sharyl Attkisson Copy Share Image
The world is very complicated and it is clearly impossible for the human mind to understand it completely. Man has therefore devised… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your… — Henri Desgrange Copy Share Image
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image