Quotes About Forgery

#1. Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton

#2. To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Deb Caletti

#3. A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

John Grant

#4. Certainly it is not to invent explanations which dismiss the chief political and historical fact of the matter: that the forgery is being believed. This fact is more important than the (historically speaking, secondary) circumstance that it is forgery.

Hannah Arendt

#5. Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.

Noam Shpancer

#6. Forgery, being the weirdest form of creativity there is, like antiques, costs lives. Why is it that antiques demand sacrificial victims? Dunno, but if they don't get enough, forgery does. You want proof? Here it is: Once a faker's found out, he dies. Truly. It always happens.

Jonathan Gash

#7. The church claims that the document is a forgery.

Lawrence Wright

#8. Petty theft, murder, forgery, arson, and the abduction of women were all capital offenses, so the death penalty for heresy was neither unusual nor extreme.50

Karen Armstrong

#9. You admit, then, that your world is not real? That it is a forgery?" Zina hesitated. "It branched off at crucial points, due to our interference with the past. Call it magic if you want or call it technology;

Philip K. Dick

#10. One man may read the Bhagavata by the light of a lamp, and another may commit a forgery by that very light; but the lamp is unaffected. The sun sheds its light on the wicked as well as on the virtuous.

Ramakrishna

#11. The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.

Ralph Hodgson

#12. What do you enjoy doing?"
Forgery? "Writing letters. Drawing." Picking locks? "Puzzles." Fighting? "Sewing.

Jodi Meadows

#13. In the future the way that Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed.

Alger Hiss

#14. Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

Phillip Adams

#15. Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?"
Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#16. Control yourself, she told herself forcibly. Become someone who can deal with this. She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. By fate or forgery, our dances are entwined for eternity.

Natalia Marx

#18. A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery.

Morris Bender

#19. Of course he had committed forgery;
of course he had committed robbery. That, indeed, was nothing, for he had been cheating and forging and stealing all his life.

Anthony Trollope

#20. Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

Brett Hull

#21. The forger was too exacting, too superficial. Only the real artist has the false beginning.

Dominic Smith

#22. We spend enormous amounts of time and money on fad diets, expensive exercise machines, and health clubs. For many people, these things only demonstrate their preoccupation with the physical side of life ... but even more important is taking care of our souls.

Billy Graham

#23. People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

Diablo Cody

#24. You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?

Dax Shepard

#25. Order is the first law of heaven, and you have to have order to survive on Earth. Figure out what has to be done each day, each week, each year and develop a system to achieve it.

Iyanla Vanzant

#26. Barking hard work, being a boy.

Scott Westerfeld

#27. The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth - Egyptian, Babylonian, and Persian, Greek, and Hindu.

Joseph McCabe

#28. I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

Vivienne Westwood

#29. Everything that glitters more than gold is not gold.

Raheel Farooq

#30. Her only weapons were her tears.

Eiji Yoshikawa

#31. Ready for your first lesson, cupcake?

John Corwin

#32. To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

Nadia Boulanger

#33. You had no right." Oh, yes, he did. He suggested,
"Why don't you write that down. Put it in my handwriting. Perhaps I'll chance to read it, think I wrote it: Maybe then I'll believe you.

Judith Ivory

#34. Without a sacred center, no one knows right from wrong.

Thomas Yellowtail

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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#36. Being afraid on the court, means you're not confident of your skills

Michael Jordan

#37. So another challenge for our generation is to create global institutions that reflect our ideas of fairness and responsibility, not the ideas that were the basis of the last stage of financial development over these recent years.

Gordon Brown

#38. I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.

Shawna Lemay