Imposture Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence. — Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture. — Oliver Goldsmith
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
When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens â€” a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on… — Mike Carey
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
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
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
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

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