Spurious Quotes

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 it spurious, or impute crimes to it. - Francois La Rochefoucauld

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 in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. - Vladimir Nabokov

Film confers a kind of spurious eternity. - Jim Morrison

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic. - John Le Carre

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism. - Abraham Kuyper

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief. - William Vickrey

Argentina will honor its foreign and domestic debt, no matter whether some candidate asks for the opposite for his own spurious political interests. - Carlos Menem

Any suit he will file would be a totally baseless, spurious suit worth nothing. - John Bowen

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 innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! - Charles Dickens