Sham Quotes

96 Sham quotes by 79 unique authors

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular… — Joseph Pulitzer
So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit… — Edgar Rice Burroughs
If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham,… — Harry Crews
Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies… — Anna Howard Shaw
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward… — Plato
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the… — William Allingham
At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that… — Nick Mancuso
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it… — Clifford Geertz
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of eternal helps and… — Alexander MacLaren
Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die. — Charles Bukowski
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No,… — Emile Zola
True praying has the largest results for good. Poor praying the least. We cannot do too much of real praying. We cannot do too little… — Edward McKendree Bounds
There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not… — Joseph Pulitzer
I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society.... if officials make public… — Sissela Bok
A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It… — Thomas Merton
Do not, oh do not indulge such a wild idea that a newspaper might err! If so what have we to trust in this age… — Lewis Carroll
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a… — Eric Gill
By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans… — Felicity Huffman
I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses. — Eric Lefkofsky
The system he (President Hosni Mubarak) is recommending would make it virtually impossible for truly independent parties to participate. Sham democracy should be exposed for… — Madeleine Albright
Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow… — Pablo Picasso
Anyone who's parading under a $100,00-plus video is not free from corporate. That's just the MTV advertising agency. I find them all to be just… — John Lydon
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead,… — John Charles Polanyi
A man can deceive a woman by his sham attachment to her provided he does not have a real attachment elsewhere. — Jean de la Bruyere
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe — Emily Dickinson

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