Sham Quotes

96 Sham quotes by 79 unique authors

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use. — George Bernard Shaw
Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work? — William Allingham
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible… — Joseph Conrad
I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham. — Rupert Everett
Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules… — Theresa May
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. — William Morris
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them… — Anna Sewell
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what… — Desmond Tutu
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their… — Jesse Ventura
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends. — Tom Waits
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and… — Joseph Pulitzer
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy. — Max Ehrmann
A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginning and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could… — Hermann Hesse
He was weary of himself, of cold ideas and brain dreams. Life a poem? Not when you went about forever poetizing about your own life… — Jens Peter Jacobsen
Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved… — Agatha Christie
what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial,… — Tom Robbins
She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish plague and a… — Anne Stuart
I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and… — Neil Gaiman
Even the human race can't claim to be natural anymore. We are fake, dying things. How fitting that I would end up in this sham… — Lauren DeStefano
[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the… — Vince Flynn
In them, she saw the sham of her life laid out like a book, the foolish belief that she, that anyone, could escape the consequences… — Libba Bray
Could she learn to like this guy? "“It's nice to meet you." Kylie plastered a warm expression on her face. But she worried he could… — C.C. Hunter
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. — Jesse Ventura
To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham. — Richard Dawkins

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79 authors contributed a total of 96 Sham Quotes, led by these top contributors: