Counterfeit Quotes

90 quotes by 79 authors

True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs… — John Henry Newman
Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out… — D. H. Lawrence
...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze... — James Russell Lowell
The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many… — B.F. Skinner
I find no quality so easy for a man to counterfeit as devotion, though his life and manner are not conformable to it; the essence… — Michel de Montaigne
We think that idols are bad things, but that is almost never the case. The greater the good, the more likely we are to expect… — Timothy Keller
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. — Edmond de Goncourt
With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits. — Julie Krone
Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion. — Gabriel Vahanian
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. — Andre Gide
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause… — Leo Tolstoy
The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein… — Thomas Browne
Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. — John Milton
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding… — James Madison
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the… — Charles Caleb Colton
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men. — Sydney J. Harris
True friends appear less moved than counterfeit. — Homer
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. — Pliny the Elder
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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