Behind the scenes Quote by John Dryden

They wouldn't tell Scipio how much of the counterfeit cash was left since, as Riccio put it, 'You're a detective now, after all.

— Cornelia Funke

“It's a shame, when I'm at the checkout line, and the cashier holds up my bill to the light, in search for a ghost…

— Anthony Liccione

I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending…

— William Shakespeare

“Once Count Victor Lustig, swindler par excellence, had sold dozens of suckers around the country a phony box with which he claimed to be…

— Robert Greene

“He, the true writer, is the department store dummy at the very center of the whole establishment, the one left alone on display all…

— Allan Gurganus

If somebody gives me his hand, I will not look at him with suspicion.

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

The Crime, from us, is hidden, [though] he is presumed to know.

— Emily Dickinson

“In his delirium he ransacked the linens of his pallet for arms but there were none. The judge smiled. The fool was no longer…

— Cormac McCarthy

“When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.”

— Umberto Eco

“Today I found yet more evidence that I’m a lunatic. The proof came in a package in the mail. The sender? Myself. The evidence?…

— Jarod Kintz

“The golden coins might have been his, but they were still stolen - self-stolen? Auto-thieved?”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“The hand that pockets the corrupt coin places it in the collection plate seeking absolution.”

— Stewart Stafford