Spurious Quotes

39 quotes by 37 authors

Jargon is the verbal sleight of hand that makes the old hat seem newly fashionable; it gives an air of novelty and specious profundity to… — David Lehman
Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. — James A. Baldwin
However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation… — Neal Boortz
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
When you reject the genuine, you are wide open for the spurious. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that when someone rejects the love of the… — J. Vernon McGee
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence. — Saul Bellow
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there. — Brian Greene
Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded… — Vladimir Nabokov
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political… — Philip K. Dick
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should… — Charles Dickens
Make a spurious division of one process into two, forget that you have done it, and then puzzle for centuries as to how the two… — Alan Watts
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his… — James A. Baldwin
What was it about that short creature with her wild hair and spurious air of purity and why would anyone much less two men love… — Anna Godbersen
To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility… — Malcolm Lowry
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are… — George Orwell
What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of… — John Adams
If you look at her closely you can see that, every now and then she turns away from her group of friends her smile falters… — Lynn

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