Counterfeit Quotes
90 quotes by 79 authors
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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
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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
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...Long, sparkling aisles of steel-stemmed trees Bending to counterfeit a breeze...
— James Russell Lowell
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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
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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
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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
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Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
— Edmond de Goncourt
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With racing, you never rest on your laurels, and there are no counterfeits.
— Julie Krone
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Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.
— Gabriel Vahanian
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
— Andre Gide
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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
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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
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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
— John Milton
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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
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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
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
— Sydney J. Harris
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True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.
— Homer
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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
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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
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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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