Quotes About Forgeries

#1. Forgeries are an ever-changing portrait of human desires. Each society, each generation, fakes the things it covets most

Frank Wynne

#2. I am always fascinated when people talk about 'the forging of a nation'. Most nations are forgeries, perpetrated in the last century or so.

Neal Ascherson

#3. From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.

Umberto Eco

#4. That means 19 or 20 of the books of the NT (New Testament) are anonymous. Many are blatantly pseudepigraphic (forgeries, see next section), with famous names applied to artificially promote veracity.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#5. We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls

Frank Wynne

#6. We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and new Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries

Thomas Paine

#7. Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake
realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into
forgeries of themselves.

Philip K. Dick

#8. These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport.

William Shakespeare

#9. That actually is true of most of the books in the New Testament. Such so-called pseudepigraphical works, or works attributed to but not written by a specific author, were extremely common in the ancient world and should by no means be thought of as forgeries.

Reza Aslan

#10. If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.

Frank Abagnale

#11. You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries."
"She's not clever. I did them," yelled Frieda.
"You'll get five years."
"She did them."
From Halfpennies and Blue Vinyl

Robyn Quaker

#12. Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#13. The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.

Rupert Sheldrake

#14. The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

Thomas Paine

#15. Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat ...

Nick Gordon

#16. But nowhere in the file had anyone said, "Oh, and by the way, he runs like a gazelle with an espresso addiction." At least not in the parts I'd skimmed.

Lish McBride

#17. God gave every man individuality of constitution, and a chance for achieving individuality of character. He puts special instruments into every man's hands by which to make himself and achieve his mission.

J.G. Holland

#18. Have you ever had so many thoughts churning inside that you didn't dare let them escape, in case they blew you wide open?

Ellen Hopkins

#19. She's a smart girl, so she doesn't trust you, but she obviously likes you.

Phil Foglio

#20. In this light she could almost be a beauty, he thought. In this light she could almost be a knight. - Jaime

George R R Martin

#21. The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

Jose Saramago

#22. Are you all right? No broken bones, no hidden concussions? No fish swimming around in your lungs?"
I smiled at him tiredly. "There might be a minnow or two, but I'm sure I'll cough them up before tomorrow," I said, and he chuckled.

Julie Kagawa