Quotes About Sham

without immortality all would be sham and sport of the most tragic nature.

trumpery. Knew

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

Exactly so! declared the little man, rubbing his hands together as if it pleased him. I am a humbug. But

The Great and Terrible Humbug

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

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 noses in other people's business.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

the leadership industry also has its share of quacks and sham artists who sell promises and stories, some true, some not, but all of them inspirational and comfortable, with not much follow-up to see what really does work and what doesn't.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

She was as deep as an inflatable kiddie pool.

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 noses in other people's business.

I can fake anything.

In time, the expression "Potemkin village" came to mean a sham, or something fraudulent, erected or spoken to conceal an unpleasant truth. As such, it became a cliché; now, it is part of the language.

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 of this world, could flee from death. That was the deceit. The true serpent in the garden.

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 lie and a torment." "Do you love me?" she repeated, quite calmly. Knowing the answer. "Yes, may it curse my soul." "May it save your soul," she said.

Award functions are a big sham. It's a money-making television programme.

In reply to an inquiry, it was explained that a satisfactory novel should be a self-evident sham to which the reader could regulate at will the degree of his credulity.

Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

created the first fake company approximately

I hate affected, niminy-piminy chits!

Enforced love is not love. All it can lead to is a sham relationship without any genuine communication, a pretense of warmth and cordiality that does not really exist, a false avowal of affection designed to mask resentment or possibly even hatred.