Imposture Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they…
— William Hazlitt
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The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
— Samuel Johnson
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on…
— Orson Pratt
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A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying is not characteristic…
— Eric Hoffer
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.
— Stephen Spender
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I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be…
— Augustus De Morgan
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All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.
— Samuel Johnson
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to…
— Simon Greenleaf
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For power can guarantee the interests of some men but it can never foster the good of man. Power always protects the good of some…
— Thomas Merton
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Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The number who actually consented to the Constitution of the United States, at the first, was very small. Considered as the act of the whole…
— Lysander Spooner
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When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on…
— Mike Carey
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The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the…
— Mark Twain
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Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the…
— William Warburton
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PALMISTRY, n. The 947th method (according to Mimbleshaw's classification) of obtaining money by false pretences. It consists in reading character in the wrinkles made by…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Or so the poet says. But not…
— Richard Stidham
Who Wrote These Imposture Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Imposture Quotes as follows: