Invented Quotes

1097 Invented quotes by 824 unique authors

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs. — Christopher Moore
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable? — C.D. Payne
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll
You do know how to play pinochle?" Mr. D eyed me suspiciously. "I'm afraid not," I said. "I'm afraid not, sir," he said. "Well," he… — Rick Riordan
We switch to another language-- not our invented language or the language we've learned from our lives. As we walk further up the mountain, we… — David Levithan
He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of… — Geraldine McCaughrean
Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it. — Bram Stoker
A 'very good friend' is a dangerous category with Indian girls. From here you can either make fast progress or if you play it wrong,… — Chetan Bhagat
Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition.… — Susan Sontag
I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught… — Louise Erdrich
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until… — George F. Kennan
A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing… — Daniel Handler
The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Carter pulled out several lengths of brown twine, a small ebony cat statue, and a thick roll of paper. No, not paper. Papyrus. I remember… — Rick Riordan
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. — Mark Twain
I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things. — Audrey Niffenegger
Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his… — Virginia Woolf
If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme… — Voltaire
But he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows,… — Joyce Carol Oates
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake… — Oscar Wilde
Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you? — Kurt Vonnegut

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