Sham Quotes

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
Tom Waits

Pain, Real, Friends

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Desmond Tutu

Heart, Children, Wonderful

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Life, Real, Pass

If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art.
William Morris

Love, Art, Hate

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad

Love, Feelings, Impossible

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.
Jesse Ventura

Religion, Strength, Business

Sham marriages have been widespread; people have been allowed to settle in Britain without being able to speak English; and there have not been rules in place to stop migrants becoming a burden on the taxpayer. We are changing all of that.
Theresa May

Place, Speak, Able

I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.
Rupert Everett

Human, Belief, Windows

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
John Charles Polanyi

Worth, Ourselves, Though

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph Pulitzer

Government, Courage, Able

Ethanol is, in its pure form, just as much of a sham as oil.
Rob Corddry

Pure, Oil, Ethanol

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
Anna Sewell

Love, Religion, Good

By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
Felicity Huffman

Woman, Single, Support

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.
Matthew Lillard

Problem, Times, Felt

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.
Nick Mancuso

Car, Live, Tell

It's all a sham: I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth.
David Brock

Truth, Democracy, Seen

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.
Eric Lefkofsky

Great, Start, Businesses

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.
Marion Barry

Game, Real, Stuff

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